Comparison of X-rays from Comets LINEAR (C/1999 S4) and McNaught-Hartley (C/1999 T1)

Icarus

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 417-423

  Krasnopolsky, Vladimir A ^a,b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Solar wind; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842428480     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.10.006     Document Type: Article

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