Dust measurements in the coma of Comet 81P/Wild 2 by the Dust Flux Monitor Instrument

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5678, 2004, Pages 1776-1780

  Tuzzolino, Anthony J ^a   Economou, Thanasis E ^a   Clark, Ben C ^b   Tsou, Peter ^c   Brownlee, Donald E ^d   Green, Simon F ^e   McDonnell, J A M ^e   McBride, Neil ^e   Colwell, Melusine T S H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MONITORING; SPACECRAFT;

DUST FLUX MONITOR INSTRUMENT (DFMI); DUST PARTICLE FLUX; MASS DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE FRAGMENTATION;

ASTROPHYSICS;

POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE;

COMET;

ACOUSTICS; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COMET; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DUST; GAS; GRAVITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS; PARTICLE SIZE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACE FLIGHT; VELOCITY;

COSMIC DUST; GASES; METEOROIDS; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 2942737031     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1098759     Document Type: Article

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