Fragmentation hierarchy of bright sungrazing comets and the birth and orbital evolution of the Kreutz system. II. The case for cascading fragmentation

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 663, Issue 1 I, 2007, Pages 657-676

  Sekanina, Zdenek ^a   Chodas, Paul W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets: general; Methods: data analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547173537     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/517490     Document Type: Article

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