Discovery of main-belt comet P/2006 VW139 by Pan-STARRS1

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 748, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hsieh, Henry H ^a   Yang, Bin ^a   Haghighipour, Nader ^a   Kaluna, Heather M ^a   Fitzsimmons, Alan ^b   Denneau, Larry ^a   Novaković, Bojan ^c   Jedicke, Robert ^a   Wainscoat, Richard J ^a   Armstrong, James D ^a,d   Duddy, Samuel R ^e   Lowry, Stephen C ^e   Trujillo, Chadwick A ^f   Micheli, Marco ^a   Keane, Jacqueline V ^a   Urban, Laurie ^a   Riesen, Timm ^a   Meech, Karen J ^a   Abe, Shinsuke ^g   Cheng, Yu Chi ^g   Chen, Wen Ping ^g   Granvik, Mikael ^h   Grav, Tommy ⁱ   Ip, Wing Huen ^g   Kinoshita, Daisuke ^g   Kleyna, Jan ^a   Lacerda, Pedro ^b   Lister, Tim ^d   Milani, Andrea ^j   Tholen, David J ^a   Vereš, Peter ^a   Lisse, Carey M ^k   Kelley, Michael S ^l   Fernández, Yanga R ^m   Bhatt, Bhuwan C ⁿ   Sahu, Devendra K ⁿ   Kaiser, Nick ^a   Chambers, K C ^a   Hodapp, Klaus W ^a   Magnier, Eugene A ^a   Price, Paul A ^o   Tonry, John L ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^d LAS CUMBRES OBSERVATORY GLOBAL TELESCOPE NETWORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^f GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

ⁱ PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^k JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^l University of Maryland   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

ⁿ INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^o PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

comets: general; minor planets, asteroids: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863233989     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/748/1/L15     Document Type: Article

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