The problem of split comets revisited

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 318, Issue 1, 1997, Pages

  Sekanina, Z ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet pairs; Configurations of fragments; Differential deceleration; Principal and secondary nuclei; Separation velocity; Tidally and nontidally split comets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002570722     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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