Surface of young jupiter family Comet 81P/Wild 2: View from the Stardust spacecraft

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5678, 2004, Pages 1764-1769

  Brownlee, Donald E ^a   Horz, Friedrich ^b   Newburn, Ray L ^c   Zolensky, Michael ^b   Duxbury, Thomas C ^c   Sandford, Scott ^d   Sekanina, Zdenek ^b   Tsou, Peter ^c   Hanner, Martha S ^e   Clark, Benton C ^f   Green, Simon F ^g   Kissel, Jochen ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^f LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^g OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; PLANETS; SPACE RESEARCH; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

COMETS; STARDUST MISSION;

ASTRONOMY;

SILICATE;

ASTRONOMY; COMET;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CAMERA; COMET; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; ENERGY; EVOLUTION; GRAVITY; HEATING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT; TOPOGRAPHY;

COSMIC DUST; GASES; METEOROIDS; SPACECRAFT; WATER;

EID: 2942711536     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1097899     Document Type: Article

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