A model for the changing pore structure and dust grain size distribution in a porous comet nucleus

Icarus

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 342-350

  Shoshani, Yossi ^a   Heifetz, Eyal ^a   Prialnik, Dina ^a   Podolak, Morris ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0031124626     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1996.5659     Document Type: Article

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