Nuclear magnitudes and the size distribution of Jupiter family comets

Icarus

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 527-549

  Tancredi, Gonzalo ^a   Fernández, Julio A ^a   Rickman, Hans ^b   Licandro, Javier ^c,d  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Uruguay)

^b BOX 515   (Sweden)

^c ISAAC NEWTON GROUP OF TELESCOPES   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Comets; comets; Photometry; Surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747336268     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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