SL9 Impacts: VLA High-Resolution Observations at λ=20 cm

Icarus

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-24

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bay Area Research Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Jupiter; Magnetosphere; Radio observations; SL9

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041849750     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2001.6600     Document Type: Article

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