Sublimation from icy jets as a probe of the interstellar volatile content of comets

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6724, 1999, Pages 213-216

  Blake, Geoffrey A ^a,b   Qi, C ^a   Hogerheijde, Michiel R ^c   Gurwell, M A ^d   Muhleman, D O ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; EVOLUTION; GAS ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; VELOCITY;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

DEUTERIUM; DEUTERIUM OXIDE; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; ICE; ISOMERISM; METEOROIDS; OXYGEN;

EID: 0033580404     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18372     Document Type: Article

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