Modeling of Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1): Observations from the Vainu Bappu Observatory

Icarus

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 221-230

  Vasundhara, R ^a   Chakraborty, Pavan ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Comets; Dust; Dust ejection; Dust jets; Gas; Hale Bopp; Imaging; Production rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000316918     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6105     Document Type: Article

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