Organic composition of C/1999 S4 (LINEAR): A comet formed near jupiter?

Science

Volumn 292, Issue 5520, 2001, Pages 1334-1339

  Mumma, M J ^a   Dello Russo, N ^a,b   DiSanti, M A ^a,b   Magee Sauer, K ^c   Novak, R E ^d   Brittain, S ^e   Rettig, T ^e   McLean, I S ^f   Reuter, D C ^a   Xu, Li H ^g  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; CONDENSATION; EARTH (PLANET); GASES; ICE;

INTERSTELLAR ICES;

PLANETS;

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

COMET; ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GAS ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0035906896     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1058929     Document Type: Article

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83. Supported by the NASA Planetary Astronomy Program (grants RTOP 344-32-30-07 to M.J.M. and NAG5-7905 to M.A.D.), by the NASA Planetary Atmospheres Program (grant NAC5-7753 to N.D.R.), and by NSF (grant AST-9619461 to K.M.S.). The NASA IRTF is operated by the University of Hawaii under contract to NASA. The Keck Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation; it is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and NASA. We thank the staff of IRTF and Keck for their expert assistance and H. Levison for valuable discussions. M.J.M. thanks S. T. Mumma and S. E. Selonick, without whose support this research would not have been possible.