The puzzling detection of the 22 GHz water emission line in Comet Hyakutake at perihelion

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 467-470

  Cosmovici, Cristiano B ^a   Montebugnoli, Stelio ^a   Orfei, Alessandro ^a   Pogrebenko, Sergej ^b   Cortiglioni, Stefano ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR VLBI IN EUROPE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0040312824     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-0633(97)00230-4     Document Type: Article

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