The organic composition of C/2001 A2 (LINEAR). II. Search for heterogeneity within a comet nucleus

Icarus

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 224-232

  Gibb, Erika L ^a   DiSanti, Michael A ^b   Magee Sauer, Karen ^c   Dello Russo, Neil ^d   Bonev, Boncho P ^b,e   Mumma, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; composition; Infrared observations; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147141863     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.11.009     Document Type: Article

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