Infrared measurements of the chemical composition of C/2006 P1 McNaught

Icarus

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 271-279

  Dello Russo, Neil ^a   Vervack Jr , Ronald J ^a   Weaver, Harold A ^a   Lisse, Carey M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; composition; Infrared; observations; Origin; Solar System; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449094223     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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