Near-infrared light curve of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 during Deep Impact

Icarus

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 220-227

  Fernandez Y R ^a   Lisse, C M ^b   Kelley, M S ^c   Dello Russo, N ^b   Tokunaga, A T ^d   Woodward, C E ^c   Wooden, D H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet Tempel 1; Infrared observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846885911     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.09.019     Document Type: Article

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