Pluto's ionospheric models and solar wind interaction

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1559-1563

  Ip, Wing Huen ^a,b   Kopp, A ^b   Lara, L M ^c   Rodrigo, R ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANETS; PLASMAS; WIND EFFECTS;

COLLISIONAL FRICTION; IONOSPHERIC PENETRATION; PLUTO; PLUTO IONOSPHERIC MODELS; SOLAR WIND INTERACTION;

IONOSPHERE;

EID: 0033723818     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(00)00098-3     Document Type: Article

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