Tidal breakup of comets

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 197-202

  Ip, Wing Huen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Comets; Kuiper belt objects; Tidal interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347756713     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026158305913     Document Type: Conference Paper

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