SL9 Impacts and Simulations of Enhanced Radial Diffusion

Icarus

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-50

  De Pater, Imke ^a   Brecht, Stephen H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bay Area Research Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets, SL9; Impact processes; Jupiter; Magnetosphere; Radio observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038584740     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2001.6602     Document Type: Article

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