On the rotational breakup of cometary nuclei and centaurs

Icarus

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 162-177

  Toth, I ^a   Lisse, C M ^b  

^a KONKOLY OBSERVATORY   (Hungary)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

C 1999 S4 (LINEAR); Comets; Hale Bopp; Hyakutake

Indexed keywords

EID: 33344476633     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.10.012     Document Type: Article

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