Photometric analysis of the nucleus of Comet 81P/Wild 2 from Stardust images

Icarus

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 209-226

  Li, Jian Yang ^a   A'Hearn, Michael F ^a   Farnham, Tony L ^a   McFadden, Lucy A ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet Wild 2; Comets, Nucleus; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349778488     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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