Physical and compositional studies of Comet 81P/Wild 2 at multiple apparitions

Icarus

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 533-558

  Farnham, Tony L ^a   Schleicher, David G ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coma; Comets; Composition; Photometry; Rotational dynamics; Wild 2

Indexed keywords

EID: 14144253987     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.08.021     Document Type: Article

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