CCD Photometry of Cometary Nuclei, I: Observations from 1990-1995

Icarus

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 161-179

  Licandro, Javier ^a   Tancredi, Gonzalo ^b   Lindgren, Mats ^c   Rickman, Hans ^c   Hutton, Ricardo Gil ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Uruguay)

^c BOX 515   (Sweden)

^d Observ Astron Félix Aguilar ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Comets; Magnitudes; Nucleus; Sizes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000107248     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6442     Document Type: Article

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