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- ↑ "558 Carmen (1905 QB)". JPL Small-Body Database . NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory . Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ↑ Gil-Hutton, Ricardo (April 1998), "Photometry of Asteroids 558 Carmen, 613 Ginevra, and 1124 Stroobantia", Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, 34: 9–11, Bibcode:1998RMxAA..34....9G.
