R- and J-band photometry of Comets 2P/Encke and 9P/Tempel 1

Icarus

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 156-161

  Hergenrother, Carl W ^a   Mueller, Beatrice E A ^b   Campins, Humberto ^a,c   Samarasinha, N H ^b   McCarthy Jr , Donald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Photometry; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33344457808     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.09.017     Document Type: Article

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