Distribution of phyllosilicates on Ceres
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Eleonora Ammannito (1), Maria Cristina De Sanctis (2), Mauro Ciarniello (2), Alessandro Frigeri (2), Filippo Giacomo Carrozzo (2), Jean Philippe Combe (3), Bethany Ehlmann (4), Simone Marchi (5), Hap Y. McSween (6), Andrea Raponi (2), Julie C. Castillo-Rogez (7), Michael J. Toplis (8), Federico Tosi (2), Andrea Longobardo (2), Ernesto Palomba (2), Carle M. Pieters (9), Carol A. Raymond (7), Paul Schenk (10), Francesca Zambon (2), and Christopher T. Russell (1)
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