Water release rates, active areas, and minimum nuclear radius derived from visual magnitudes of comets - An application to comet 46P/Wirtanen

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 681-692

  De Almeida, A A ^a,b   Singh, P D ^a,b   Huebner, W F ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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EID: 0012920059     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0032-0633(96)00122-5     Document Type: Article

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