Coma composition and evolution of ROSETTA target comet 46P/Wirtanen

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 321-328

  Schulz, R ^a   Schwehm, G ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ROSETTA; Space Mission Target Comets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000785549     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-4211-3_29     Document Type: Article

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