Heliospheric latitude variations of properties of cometary plasma tails: A test of the ulysses comet watch paradigm

Icarus

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 52-64

  Brandt, John C ^a,b   Snow, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012424372     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6484     Document Type: Article

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