Placing the Deep Impact Mission into context: Two decades of observations of 9P/Tempel 1 from McDonald Observatory

Icarus

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-128

  Cochran, A L ^a   Barker, E S ^b   Caballero, M D ^c   Gyorgey Ries J ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet Tempel 1; Comets; composition; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349169359     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.08.015     Document Type: Article

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