The Dependence of the Circumnuclear Coma Structure on the Properties of the Nucleus: III. First Modeling of a CO-Dominated Coma, with Application to Comets 46 P/Wirtanen and 29 P/Schwassmann-Wachmann I

Icarus

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-106

  Crifo, J F ^a   Rodionov, A V ^b   Bockelee Morvan D ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Ctrl Res Inst Mach Bldg ^*  (Russian Federation)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

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EID: 0002301458     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6051     Document Type: Article

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