Determining the ages of comets from the fraction of crystalline dust

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6793, 2000, Pages 275-276

  Nuth III, Joseph A ^a   Hill, Hugh G M ^a   Kletetschka, Gunther ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMET; DATING METHOD; DUST;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

CARBON MONOXIDE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; METEOROIDS; NITROGEN;

EID: 0034691588     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35018516     Document Type: Article

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