Viscous relaxation on comets

Icarus

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 584-588

  Cheng, Andrew F ^a   Dombard, Andrew J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Geological processes; Geophysics; nucleus

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748907627     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.06.015     Document Type: Article

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