The variation of short-period comet size and decay rate with perihelion distance

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 346, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 584-592

  Hughes, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comets: general

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); SOLAR SYSTEM;

COMETS: GENERAL; DECAY RATE; DISTRIBUTION INDEX; OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM; SHORT PERIODS; SIZE-DISTRIBUTION; SYSTEMS GROUPS;

COMETS;

EID: 0344585365     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2966.2003.07120.x     Document Type: Article

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