A survey of small fast rotating asteroids among the near-Earth asteroid population

Icarus

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 194-209

  Hergenrother, Carl W ^a   Whiteley, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Asgard Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Near Earth objects; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959551388     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.03.023     Document Type: Article

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