The surface composition of Ceres

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 163, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 95-116

  Rivkin, Andrew S ^a   Li, Jian Yang ^b   Milliken, Ralph E ^c   Lim, Lucy F ^d   Lovell, Amy J ^e   Schmidt, Britney E ^f   McFadden, Lucy A ^b   Cohen, Barbara A ^g  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Composition; Dawn mission; Dwarf planets; Solar system; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DAWN MISSION; NON-SPECTRAL DATA; PHOTOMETRIC PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE VARIABILITY; THERMAL INERTIA;

ASTEROIDS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; PLANETS; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPECTROSCOPY;

SURFACES;

EID: 84862908485     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-010-9677-4     Document Type: Article

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