Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Nucleus of Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova and Its Inner Coma

Icarus

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 424-438

  Lamy, P L ^a   Toth, I ^a,b   A'Hearn, M F ^c   Weaver, H A ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b KONKOLY OBSERVATORY   (Hungary)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001623037     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6153     Document Type: Article

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