Changes in the structure of comet nuclei due to radioactive heating

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 169-178

  Prialnik, Dina ^a   Podolak, M ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Comets; Composition; Evolution; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000003985     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-4211-3_17     Document Type: Article

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