Ground-based visible and near-IR observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 during the Deep Impact encounter

Icarus

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 199-207

  Knight, Matthew M ^a   Walsh, Kevin J ^a   A'Hearn, Michael F ^a   Swaters, Robert A ^a   Zauderer, B Ashley ^a   Samarasinha, Nalin H ^b,c   Vázquez, Roberto ^d   Reitsema, Harold ^e  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet Tempel 1

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846851995     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.09.020     Document Type: Article

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