Almahata Sitta (=asteroid 2008 TC3) and the search for the ureilite parent body

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 45, Issue 10-11, 2010, Pages 1590-1617

  Jenniskens, Peter ^a   Vaubaillon, Jérémie ^b   Binzel, Richard P ^c   Demeo, Francesca E ^c,d   Nesvorný, David ^e   Bottke, William F ^e   Fitzsimmons, Alan ^f   Hiroi, Takahiro ^g   Marchis, Franck ^a   Bishop, Janice L ^a   Vernazza, Pierre ^h   Zolensky, Michael E ⁱ   Herrin, Jason S ⁱ   Welten, Kees C ^j   Meier, Matthias M M ^k   Shaddad, Muawia H ^l  

^a SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des ephemerides   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^e SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^g BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

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EID: 78650360492     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2010.01153.x     Document Type: Article

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