Detection of water after the collision of fragments G and K of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter

Icarus

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 411-421

  Bjoraker, Gordon L ^a   Stolovy, Susan R ^b   Herter, Terry L ^b   Gull, George E ^b   Pirger, Bruce E ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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EID: 0030160095     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.0096     Document Type: Article

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