Methane in Oort cloud comets

Icarus

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 391-406

  Gibb, E L ^a   Mumma, M J ^a   Dello Russo, N ^a,b   DiSanti, M A ^a   Magee Sauer, K ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets, composition; Infrared observations; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141457123     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00201-X     Document Type: Article

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