The dust trail of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Icarus

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 572-587

  Kelley, Michael S ^a   Reach, William T ^b   Lien, David J ^c  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; dust; Infrared observations; Meteors

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949206588     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.08.018     Document Type: Article

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