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Tholen, D.J., Tejfel, V.G., Cox, A.N. (2002). Planets and Satellites. In: Cox, A.N. (eds) Allen’s Astrophysical Quantities. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1186-0_12

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