Identifying meteorite source regions through near-Earth object spectroscopy

Icarus

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 419-429

  Thomas, Cristina A ^a   Binzel, Richard P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Meteorites; Near Earth objects; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149175951     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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