The Pioneer 10 anomalous acceleration and Oort cloud comets

Icarus

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 219-222

  Whitmire, Daniel P ^a   Matese, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Celestial mechanics; Comets; Dynamic

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542741021     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00196-9     Document Type: Article

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