Compositional heterogeneity of Asteroid 4 Vesta's southern hemisphere: Implications for the Dawn mission

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 693-706

  Reddy, Vishnu ^a,e   Gaffey, Michael J ^a   Kelley, Michael S ^b   Nathues, Andreas ^c   Li, Jian Yang ^d   Yarbrough, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid Vesta; Asteroids; Asteroids, Composition; Planetary formation; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049530576     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.07.015     Document Type: Article

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