Pluto and charon with the hubble space telescope. I. Monitoring global change and improved surface properties from light curves

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1117-1127

  Buie, Marc W ^a   Grundy, William M ^b   Young, Eliot F ^a   Young, Leslie A ^a   Stern, S Alan ^a  

^a SwRI   (United States)

^b LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Planets and satellites: individual (Charon, Pluto); Planets and satellites: surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149154015     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/139/3/1117     Document Type: Article

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