Physical Properties of the Nucleus of Comet 2P/Encke

Icarus

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 145-160

  Fernández, Yanga R ^a,b   Lisse, Carey M ^c   Ulrich Kaufl H ^d   Peschke, Sibylle B ^e   Weaver, Harold A ^f   A'Hearn, Michael F ^a   Lamy, Philippe P ^g   Livengood, Timothy A ^a,h   Kostiuk, Theodor ^h  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c NASA Hubble Fellowship Program   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Infrared observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346876668     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6431     Document Type: Article

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