3- to 14- μm Spectroscopy of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, Parent Body of the Leonid Meteors

Icarus

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 187-190

  Lynch, David K ^a   Russell, Ray W ^a   Sitko, Michael L ^b  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Infrared observations; Meteors; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000919539     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6260     Document Type: Article

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