First experimental studies of large samples of gas-laden amorphous "cometary" ices

Icarus

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 157-163

  Bar Nun, Akiva ^a   Laufer, Diana ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Comets; Comets, composition; Ices; Surface, comets; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037218383     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(02)00016-7     Document Type: Article

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