Interception of comet Hyakutake's ion tail at a distance of 500 million kilometres

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6778, 2000, Pages 576-578

  Gloeckler, G ^a,b   Geiss, J ^c   Schwadron, N A ^b   Fisk, L A ^b   Zurbuchen, T H ^b   Ipavich, F M ^a   Von Steiger, R ^c   Balsiger, H ^d   Wilken, B ^e  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DATA ANALYSIS; IONIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING;

EID: 0034611806     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35007015     Document Type: Article

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