CCD observations of distant comets from Palomar and Steward Observatories

Icarus

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 492-503

  Lowry, Stephen C ^a   Weissman, Paul R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Nuclei; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042929926     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00129-5     Document Type: Article

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