A low-temperature origin for the planetesimals that formed Jupiter

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6759, 1999, Pages 269-270

  Owen, Tobias ^a   Mahaffy, Paul ^b   Niemann, H B ^b   Atroya, Sushil ^c   Donahue, Thomas ^c   Bar Nun, Akiva ^d   De Pater, Imke ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; HELIUM; HYDROGEN; ICE; KRYPTON; METAL; NEON; NITROGEN; XENON;

JUPITER; PLANETARY EVOLUTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CLOUD; LOW TEMPERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLATILIZATION;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

COLD; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; LITHIUM; SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 0033581846     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46232     Document Type: Article

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