About mineral composition of geologic units in the northern hemisphere of Vesta

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 575-585

  Shestopalov, D I ^a   McFadden, L A ^b   Golubeva, L F ^a   Orujova, L O ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Azerbaijan)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956277040     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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