Modeling the nucleus and jets of Comet 81P/Wild 2 based on the Stardust encounter data

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5678, 2004, Pages 1769-1774

  Sekanina, Zdenek ^a   Brownlee, Donald E ^b   Economou, Thanasis E ^c   Tuzzolino, Anthony J ^c   Green, Simon F ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DUST; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPACECRAFT; SUN;

NUCLEUS PROPERTIES; PARTICULATE EJECTA; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

COMET;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COMET; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITY; DUST; GAS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MODEL; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT;

ALGORITHMS; COSMIC DUST; METEOROIDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOFTWARE; SPACECRAFT;

BIKINIA LE-TESTUI;

EID: 2942738994     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1098388     Document Type: Article

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18. We thank P. Tsou for continuous encouragement and some assistance. This research was carried out in part at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with NASA. D.E.B. acknowledges support from NASA. The University of Chicago effort was supported by LMA Contract RF6-457089. S.F.G. acknowledges the financial support of the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.