The peculiar volatile composition of comet 8p/tuttle: a contact binary of chemically distinct cometesimals?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 680, Issue 1 PART 2, 2008, Pages

  Bonev, Boncho P ^a,b   Mumma, Michael J ^a   Radeva, Yana L ^a,c   Disanti, Michael A ^a   Gibb, Erika L ^d   Villanueva, Gerónimo L ^a,e  

^a W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets: General; Comets: Individual (8p tuttle); Infrared: Solar system

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149119246     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589649     Document Type: Article

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