New insights on ices in Centaur and Transneptunian populations

Icarus

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 297-307

  Barucci, M A ^a   Alvarez Candal, A ^b   Merlin, F ^a,c   Belskaya, I N ^a,d   de Bergh, C ^a   Perna, D ^e   DeMeo, F ^f   Fornasier, S ^a,c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAPODIMONTE   (Italy)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centaurs; Spectroscopy; Transneptunian objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959566638     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.04.019     Document Type: Article

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