Earth-Trojan asteroid

Nature

Volumn 475, Issue 7357, 2011, Pages 481-483

  Connors, Martin ^a,b   Wiegert, Paul ^c   Veillet, Christian ^d  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; EARTH; JUPITER; MARS; NEPTUNE; ORBITAL FORCING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOMETRY; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT; SUN; SUNLIGHT; TROJAN ASTEROID;

EID: 79960928394     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10233     Document Type: Article

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