On the sodium tail of comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3261-3264

  Kupperman, D G ^a,b   Paxton, L J ^a,b   Carbary, J ^a,b   Romick, G J ^a,b   Anderson, D E ^a,b   Meng, C I ^a,b   Feldman, P D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMETS; SODIUM TAIL;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SODIUM;

SPACE RESEARCH;

COMET; INTERPLANETARY DUST; SODIUM;

EID: 0032173325     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02254     Document Type: Article

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