Time-dependent gas kinetics in tenuous planetary atmospheres: The cometary coma

Icarus

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 207-226

  Combi, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0030240055     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.0150     Document Type: Article

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