Identification of comet Hyakutake's extremely long ion tail from magnetic field signatures

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6778, 2000, Pages 574-576

  Jones, Geraint H ^a   Balogh, André ^a   Horbury, Timothy S ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DATA ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; ORIENTATION; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; VELOCITY;

EID: 0034611790     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35007011     Document Type: Article

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