A survey of debris trails from short-period comets

Icarus

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 298-322

  Reach, William T ^a   Kelley, Michael S ^b   Sykes, Mark V ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Infrared observations; Interplanetary dust; Meteors

Indexed keywords

EID: 35248817765     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.03.031     Document Type: Article

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