Grains in the shoemaker-levy 9 impact plume: Formation and composition

Icarus

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 311-318

  Hasegawa, Hitoshi ^a   Takeuchi, Satoru ^b   Watanabe, Jun Ichi ^c  

^a ASTEC Inc   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

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EID: 0030160621     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.0089     Document Type: Article

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