Production rates for the stardust mission target: 81P/Wild 2

Icarus

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 331-340

  Fink, Uwe ^a   Hicks, Michael P ^b   Fevig, Ronald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

81 P Wild 2; Comets; Composition; Spectrophotometry; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033210698     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6182     Document Type: Article

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