Crystalline comet dust: Laboratory experiments on a simple silicate system

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 457-478

  Thompson, S P ^a   Fonti, S ^b   Verrienti, C ^b   Blanco, A ^b   Orofino, V ^b   Tang, C C ^a  

^a DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMET; CRYSTALLIZATION; INTERPLANETARY DUST; SILICATE;

EID: 0042731677     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2003.tb00280.x     Document Type: Article

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