Near-Earth asteroid surface roughness depends on compositional class
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a Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA b University of Maine at Farmington, 173 High Street, Preble Hall, Farmington, ME 04938, USA c Arecibo Observatory, HC3 Box 53995, Arecibo, PR 00612, USA d Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA e Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA f Department of Geography and Geosciences, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA 17815, USA
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تاریخ انتشار 2008