The interaction of comet 153P/Ikeya-Zhang with interplanetary coronal mass ejections: Identification of fast ICME signatures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Jones, Geraint H ^a   Brandt, John C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

2111 Interplanetary physics: Ejecta,driver gases,and magnetic clouds; 2139 Interplanetary physics: Interplanetary shocks; 6025 Planetology: Comets and small bodies: Interactions with solar wind plasma and fields; 6026 Planetology: Cornets and small bodies: Ionospheres composition and chemistry; 7513 Solar physics, astrophysics, and astronomy: Coronal mass ejections

Indexed keywords

IMPACT TESTING; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PLASMAS;

COMETS; PLASMA TAIL; TAIL DENSITY;

ASTRONOMY;

COMET; CORONAL MASS EJECTION;

EID: 11844253157     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021166     Document Type: Article

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