From comets to asteroids: When hairy stars go bald

Earth, Moon and Planets

Volumn 72, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 185-201

  Jewitt, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; COMET; SOLAR SYSTEM; VOLATILE;

EID: 0029729708     PISSN: 01679295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00117517     Document Type: Article

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