The nature of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 subnuclei from analysis of preimpact Hubble space telescope images

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 101, Issue E4, 1996, Pages 9271-9281

  Rettig, Terrence W ^a   Mumma, Michael J ^b   Sobczak, Gregory J ^a,c   Hahn, Joseph M ^a   Disanti, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMENT SHOEMAKER LEVY; COMETARY SUBNUCLEUS; HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE;

EID: 0029750498     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96JE00520     Document Type: Article

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