Observations of the Ion Pile-up in Comets Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake

Icarus

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 62-68

  Bouchez, Antonin H ^a   Brown, Michael E ^a   Spinrad, Hyron ^c   Misch, Anthony ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Dynamics; Hale Bopp; Hyakutake; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347179798     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1998.6033     Document Type: Article

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