Cassini cosmic dust analyser: Composition of dust at saturn

ESA - Workshop on Dust in Planetary Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 107-110

  McBride, N ^a   Hillier, J K ^a   Green, S F ^a   Srama, R ^b   Kempf, S ^b   Postberg, F ^b   Moragas Klostermeyer, G ^b   McDonnell, J A M ^a   Grun E ^b,c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGY; IONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SILICATES; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

CASSINI; COSMIC DUSTS; HYDRONIUM IONS; ION DYNAMICS; PLASMA IONS; SATURNIAN SYSTEMS; SUB SYSTEMS; TIME OF FLIGHTS; WATER ICES; WATER MOLECULES;

DUST;

EID: 55849090680     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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