Fluidization and multiphase transport of particulate cometary material as an explanation of the smooth terrains and repetitive outbursts on 9P/Tempel 1

Icarus

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 280-291

  Belton, Michael J S ^a   Melosh, Jay ^b  

^a Belton Space Exploration Initiatives LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Geological processes; nucleus

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449109527     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.11.012     Document Type: Article

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