First fragment of Asteroid 4 Vesta's mantle detected

Icarus

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 175-179

  Reddy, Vishnu ^a,b   Nathues, Andreas ^b   Gaffey, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asteroid Vesta; Near Earth objects; Planetary formation; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952002493     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.11.032     Document Type: Article

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