Evolution of the outgassing of Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) from radio observations

Science

Volumn 275, Issue 5308, 1997, Pages 1915-1918

  Biver, Nicolas ^a   Bockelée Morvan, Dominique ^a   Colom, Pierre ^a   Crovisier, Jacques ^a   Davies, John K ^b   Dent, William R F ^b   Despois, Didier ^c   Gérard, Eric ^a   Lellouch, Emmanuel ^a   Rauer, Heike ^a   Moreno, Raphael ^d   Paubert, Gabriel ^d  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d Inst Radioastronomie Millimetrique   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; ICE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DEVICE; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE; GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRUM; SUN; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; COSMIC DUST; GASES; HYDROGEN; ICE; METEOROIDS; METHANOL; NITROGEN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 1842376247     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5308.1915     Document Type: Article

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