Rotations and densities of trans-Neptunian objects

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 508, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 451-455

  Perna, D ^a,b,c   Dotto, E ^c   Barucci, M A ^a   Rossi, A ^d   Fornasier, S ^a,e   De Bergh, C ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^d ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Kuiper Belt; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

AXIS RATIO; COLLISIONAL EVOLUTION; DENSITY STATISTICS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; KUIPER BELT; LIGHT CURVES; LITERATURE DATA; LOWER LIMITS; NEW RESULTS; NEW TECHNOLOGY TELESCOPE; OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM; PHYSICAL NATURE; ROTATION RATE; SMALL BODIES; SPIN RATE; TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS;

ASTRONOMY; PHOTOMETRY; ROTATION; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 71849109975     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200911970     Document Type: Article

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