High Temperatures in Returning Ejecta from the R Impact of Comet SL9

Icarus

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 164-172

  Kim, Sang Joon ^a   Ruiz, M ^b   Rieke, G H ^b   Rieke, M J ^b   Zahnle, K ^c  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Collisional physics; Comets: SL9; Jupiter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039627747     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1998.6069     Document Type: Article

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