Photometry of cometary nuclei: Rotation rates, colours and a comparison with kuiper belt objects

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 373, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1590-1602

  Snodgrass, C ^a,b   Lowry, S C ^a   Fitzsimmons, A ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Comets: general; Comets: individual: 137P Shoemaker Levy 2; Comets: individual: 17P Holmes; Comets: individual: 47P Ashbrook Jackson; Kuiper belt; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

COMETS; PHOTOMETRY; PLANETS; TIME SERIES;

COMET: INDIVIDUAL: 137P/SHOEMAKER-LEVY 2; COMET: INDIVIDUAL: 17P/HOLMES; COMET: INDIVIDUAL: 47P/ASHBROOK-JACKSON; COMETS: GENERAL; COMETS:INDIVIDUAL; JACKSON; KUIPER BELT; TECHNIQUES: PHOTOMETRIC;

COLOR;

EID: 33845286902     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11121.x     Document Type: Article

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