Mostly dormant comets and their disintegration into meteoroid streams: A review

Earth, Moon and Planets

Volumn 102, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 505-520

  Jenniskens, Peter ^a  

^a SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid; Comet; Comet fragmentation; Comet asteroid transition object; Interplanetary dust; Meteor shower; Meteoroid stream; Minor planet; Near Earth Object; Zodiacal cloud

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; COMET; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; FRAGMENTATION; INTERPLANETARY DUST; JUPITER; METEOR; PARENT BODY; PLANETARY ROTATION;

PHAETHON;

EID: 41549114298     PISSN: 01679295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11038-007-9169-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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