Rotation of comet 46P/Wirtanen

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 326, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1268-1276

  Meech, K J ^a   Bauer, J M ^a   Hainaut, O R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Comets: 46p Wirtanen; Space vehicles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001444439     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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