Assessment of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragment sizes using light curves measured by Galileo spacecraft instruments

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 311-326

  Nemtchinov, I V ^a   Shuvalov, V V ^a   Kosarev, I B ^a   Artem'eva, N A ^a   Trubetskaya, I A ^a   Svetsov, V V ^a   Ivanov, B A ^a   Loseva, T V ^a   Neukum, G ^b   Hahn, G ^b   De Niem, D ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

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EID: 0342973626     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-0633(96)00090-6     Document Type: Article

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