Comet nucleus size distributions from HST and Keck telescopes

Icarus

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 463-491

  Meech, K J ^a   Hainaut, O R ^b   Marsden, B G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Colors; Comets; Distant activity; Nucleus sizes

Indexed keywords

EID: 3343027194     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2004.03.014     Document Type: Article

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