Palomar and Table Mountain observations of 9P/Tempel 1 during the Deep Impact encounter: First results

Icarus

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 296-305

  Bauer, James M ^a   Weissman, Paul R ^a   Choi, Young Jun ^a   Troy, Mitchell ^a   Young, James W ^a   Lisse, Carey M ^b   Dekany, Richard ^c   Hanner, Martha S ^d   Buratti, Bonnie J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Comet Tempel 1; Comets; dust

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847001326     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.10.035     Document Type: Article

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