The population of near-Earth asteroids

Icarus

Volumn 257, Issue , 2015, Pages 302-312

  Harris, Alan W ^a   D'Abramo, Germano ^b  

^a More Data Inc   (United States)

^b INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Near Earth objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934883028     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2015.05.004     Document Type: Article

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