Nucleus properties of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 estimated from non-gravitational force modeling

Icarus

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 306-320

  Davidsson, Björn J R ^a   Gutiérrez, Pedro J ^b   Rickman, Hans ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Comet Tempel 1; Comets; nucleus

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846859799     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.07.022     Document Type: Article

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