Crystalline silicates in comets: How did they form?

Icarus

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 243-250

  Nuth III, Joseph A ^a   Johnson, Natasha M ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Comets, origin; Interplanetary dust; Silicate grains; Solar nebula processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844508331     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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