The dust in Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) during its disintegration: Narrow-band images, color maps, and dynamical models

Icarus

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 419-436

  Bonev, T ^a   Jockers, K ^b   Petrova, E ^c   Delva, M ^d   Borisov, G ^a,e   Ivanova, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY   (Bulgaria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^d Institut für Weltraumforschung ^*  (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Comets: dust; Comets: dust color; Comets: Individual: C 1999 S4 (LINEAR)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036957789     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6971     Document Type: Article

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