Exposed water ice deposits on the surface of comet 9P/Tempel 1

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5766, 2006, Pages 1453-1455

  Sunshine, J M ^a   A'Hearn, M F ^b   Groussin, O ^b   Li, J Y ^b   Belton, M J S ^c   Delamere, W A ^d   Kissel, J ^e   Klaasen, K P ^f   McFadden, L A ^b   Meech, K J ^g   Melosh, H J ^h   Schultz, P H ⁱ   Thomas, P C ^j   Veverka, J ^j   Yeomans, D K ^f   Busko, I C ^k   Desnoyer, M ^j   Farnham, T L ^b   Feaga, L M ^b   Hampton, D L ^l   Lindler, D J ^m   Lisse, C M ⁿ   Wellnitz, D D ^b   more..

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^g UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROMETERS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SPACE RESEARCH;

COMET; NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRA; SOLID WATER ICE;

ASTRONOMY;

ICE; WATER;

COMET; ICE; SURFACE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EXPOSURE; MODEL; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ICE; METEOROIDS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 33644853761     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1123632     Document Type: Article

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