Dust coma morphology in the Deep Impact images of Comet 9P/Tempel 1

Icarus

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 26-40

  Farnham, T L ^a   Wellnitz, D D ^a   Hampton, D L ^b   Li, J Y ^a   Sunshine, J M ^a   Groussin, O ^a   McFadden, L A ^a   Crockett, C J ^a   A'Hearn, M F ^a   Belton, M J S ^c   Schultz, P ^d   Lisse, C M ^e  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^c Belton Space Exploration Initiatives LLC   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet Tempel 1; Comets; Rotational dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846883740     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.10.036     Document Type: Article

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