Optical and infrared colors of transneptunian objects observed with HST

Icarus

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 693-709

  Benecchi, S D ^a,b   Noll, K S ^c   Stephens, D C ^d   Grundy, W M ^e   Rawlins, J ^d  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STScI   (United States)

^d Brigham Young University   (United States)

^e LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hubble space telescope observations; Kuiper Belt; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956258271     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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