Doubly Ionized Carbon Observed in the Plasma Tail of Comet Kudo-Fujikawa

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5652, 2003, Pages 1949-1952

  Povich, Matthew S ^a   Raymond, John C ^a   Jones, Geraint H ^b   Uzzo, Michael ^a   Ko, Yuan Kuen ^a   Feldman, Paul D ^c   Smith, Peter L ^a   Marsden, Brian G ^a   Woods, Thomas N ^d  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; EVAPORATION; PHOTODISSOCIATION; PHOTOIONIZATION; SPACECRAFT;

COMETS;

ASTRONOMY;

CARBON; CARBON ION; CARBON MONOXIDE; HYDROGEN; ION; ORGANIC COMPOUND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

CARBON; COMET; PLASMA; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COMET; COMET KUDO FUJIKAWA; DISSOCIATION; DUST; EVAPORATION; GRAIN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONIZATION; PHOTODISSOCIATION; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROMETER; ULTRAVIOLET CORONAGRAPH SPECTROMETER;

CARBON; HYDROGEN; IONS; METEOROIDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER;

EID: 0346874217     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1092142     Document Type: Article

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