Discovery of a comet by its Lyman-α emission

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6784, 2000, Pages 321-322

  Mäkinen, J Teemu T ^a   Bertaux, Jean Loup ^b   Laakso, Harri ^a   Pulkkinen, Tulja ^a   Summanen, Tuula ^a   Kyrölä, Erkki ^a   Schmidt, Walter ^a   Quémerais, Eric ^b   Lallement, Rosine ^b  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BRIGHTNESS; INSTRUMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 0343883510     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35012526     Document Type: Article

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