A single sub-km Kuiper Belt object from a stellar Occultation in archival data
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1 Department of Astronomy, 249-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 2 CITA, University of Toronto, 60 St. George St., ON, M5S 3H8, Canada 3 Einstein Fellow 4 Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA 5 Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel 6 Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, POB 26, Rehovot 76100, Israel 7 Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA 8 Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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تاریخ انتشار 2009