Radar observations of 8P/Tuttle: A contact-binary comet

Icarus

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 499-502

  Harmon, John K ^a   Nolan, Michael C ^a   Giorgini, Jon D ^b   Howell, Ellen S ^a  

^a National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Comets, Nucleus; Radar observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950057024     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.12.026     Document Type: Article

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