Temperature and Gas Production Distributions on the Surface of a Spherical Model Comet Nucleus in the Orbit of 46P/Wirtanen

Icarus

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 74-84

  Enzian, Achim ^a   Klinger, Jürgen ^b   Schwehm, Gerhard ^c   Weissman, Paul R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

46P Wirtanen; Comet nuclei; Comets; Modeling; Rosetta

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002581933     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1998.6050     Document Type: Article

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