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Cunningham, C.J. (2017). Brewster’s Support for Olbers’ Hypothesis. In: Investigating the Origin of the Asteroids and Early Findings on Vesta. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58118-7_3
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