Near-infrared spectroscopy of primitive asteroid families

Icarus

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 538-546

  Ziffer, Julie ^a   Campins, Humberto ^b   Licandro, Javier ^c   Walker, Matthew E ^a   Fernandez, Yanga ^b   Clark, Beth Ellen ^f   Mothe Diniz, Thais ^d   Howell, Ellen ^e   Deshpande, Rohit ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e Arecibo Observatory   (United States)

^f ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Asteroids, Composition; Asteroids, Surfaces; Infrared observations; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956226361     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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