Short-wavelength infrared (1.3-2.6 μm) observations of the nucleus of Comet 19P/Borrelly

Icarus

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 100-112

  Soderblom, L A ^a   Britt, D T ^b   Brown, R H ^c   Buratti, B J ^d   Kirk, R L ^a   Owen, T C ^e   Yelle, R V ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

19P Borrelly; Borrelly; Comet; Deep Space 1; H K color; Imaging spectrometer; Infrared spectra; J H color; JHK color; Nitrogen organic molecules; Nucleus; Short period comets; Short wavelength infrared; Spectral absorption; SWIR; Temperature; Thermal emission

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642420520     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.08.019     Document Type: Article

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