A McDonald observatory study of Comet 19P/Borrelly: Placing the deep space 1 observations into a broader context

Icarus

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 398-418

  Farnham, Tony L ^a,b   Cochran, Anita L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet dynamics; Comets; Imaging; Rotational dynamics; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036953452     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6969     Document Type: Article

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