Comparison between the findings of Deep Impact and our experimental results on large samples of gas-laden amorphous ice

Icarus

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 321-325

  Bar Nun, A ^a   Pat El, I ^a   Laufer, D ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Comets; composition; dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846890207     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.06.018     Document Type: Article

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