The collision of Jupiter and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

Icarus

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 1-17

  Zahnle, Kevin ^a   Low, Mordecai Mark Mac ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY;

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; JUPITER; METEOROIDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOFTWARE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0028677490     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1994.1038     Document Type: Article

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