Formation of smooth terrains on Comet Tempel 1

Icarus

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 164-168

  Bar Nun, Akiva ^a   Pálsson, Finnur ^b   Björnsson, Helgi ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Comet Tempel 1; Comets; Ices; mechanical properties; nucleus

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749090431     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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