The impending appearance of comet Tempel-Tuttle and the Leonid meteors

Icarus

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 407-413

  Yeomans, Donald K ^a   Yau, Kevin K ^a   Weissman, Paul R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0030525307     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.0218     Document Type: Article

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