The bimodal colors of Centaurs and small Kuiper belt objects

N. Peixinho; A. Delsanti; A. Guilbert-Lepoutre; R. Gafeira; P. Lacerda

doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219057

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Issue		A&A Volume 546, October 2012


Article Number		A86
Number of page(s)		12
Section		Planets and planetary systems
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219057
Published online		09 October 2012

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