Small comets: Naked-eye visibility

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 3121-3124

  Rizk, Bashar ^a   Dessler, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; ASTROPHYSICS; CLOUDS; ICE; LIGHT; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SOLAR SYSTEM; VISIBILITY; WATER;

NAKED-EYE; VISUAL MAGNITUDES; WATER ICE;

EARTH SCIENCES; SPACE RESEARCH;

SMALL COMETS;

SMALL COMET HYPOTHESIS; VISIBILITY;

EID: 0031392467     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03185     Document Type: Article

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