Photometric mapping of Asteroid (4) Vesta's southern hemisphere with Hubble Space Telescope

Icarus

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 238-251

  Li, Jian Yang ^a   McFadden, Lucy A ^a   Thomas, Peter C ^b   Mutchler, Max J ^c   Parker, Joel Wm ^d   Young, Eliot F ^d   Russell, Christopher T ^e   Sykes, Mark V ^f   Schmidt, Britney E ^e  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c STScI   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid Vesta; Hubble Space Telescope observations; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953610233     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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