The dust trail of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko between 2004 and 2006

Icarus

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 992-1012

  Agarwal, Jessica ^a   Müller, Michael ^b   Reach, William T ^c   Sykes, Mark V ^d   Boehnhardt, Hermann ^e   Grün, Eberhard ^f,g  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b ESA ESOC   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets, Dust; Infrared observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952584182     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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