Spectropolarimetry of the Deep Impact target Comet 9P/Tempel 1 with HiVIS

Icarus

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 177-184

  Harrington, D M ^a   Meech, K ^a   Kolokolova, L ^b   Kuhn, J R ^a   Whitman, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet Tempel 1; Comets; composition; Impact processes; Polarimetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846880917     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.08.015     Document Type: Article

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