Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Dust Size and Velocity Distributions

Icarus

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 501-513

  Hahn, Joseph M ^a   Rettig, Terrence W ^b  

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Coma; Comets dust; Nucleus; Shoemaker Levy 9

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012478166     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6403     Document Type: Article

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