High temperature chemistry in the fireballs formed by the impacts of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 in Jupiter

Icarus

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 121-134

  Borunov, Sergei ^a   Drossart, Pierre ^a   Encrenaz, Thérèse ^a   Dorofeeva, Vera ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0030640379     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.5608     Document Type: Article

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