Detection of large grains in the coma of Comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR) from Arecibo radar observations

Icarus

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 432-441

  Nolan, Michael C ^a   Harmon, John K ^a   Howell, Ellen S ^a   Campbell, Donald B ^b   Margot, Jean Luc ^b  

^a Arecibo Observatory   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Radar

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645852863     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.11.010     Document Type: Article

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