Pole and Shape Determination for 12 Asteroids
✍ Scribed by Tadeusz Michałowski
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 268 KB
- Volume
- 123
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0019-1035
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