Water ice and organics on the surface of the asteroid 24 Themis

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7293, 2010, Pages 1320-1321

  Campins, Humberto ^a   Hargrove, Kelsey ^a   Pinilla Alonso, Noemi ^b   Howell, Ellen S ^c   Kelley, Michael S ^d   Licandro, Javier ^e,f   Mothe Diniz T ^g   Fernandez Y ^h   Ziffer, Julie ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NAIC Arecibo Observatory   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ASTEROID; COMET; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; ICE; MOON; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SUBLIMATION; VAPORIZATION; WATER RESOURCE;

ARTICLE; ASTEROID BODY; ASTRONOMY; INFRARED RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; MINOR PLANETS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

EID: 77951790141     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09029     Document Type: Article

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