Polarization and brightness opposition effects for the E-type Asteroid 44 Nysa

Icarus

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 655-665

  Rosenbush, Vera K ^a   Shevchenko, Vasilij G ^b   Kiselev, Nikolai N ^a   Sergeev, Alexander V ^c   Shakhovskoy, Nikolai M ^d   Velichko, Feodor P ^b   Kolesnikov, Sergey V ^e   Karpov, Nikolai V ^c  

^a NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^b V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^c International Center for Astronomical Medical and Ecological Research   (Ukraine)

^d CRIMEAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (Ukraine)

^e ODESSA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Photometry; Polarimetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349177518     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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