Modeling of the magnetosphere of Mercury at the time of the first MESSENGER flyby

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-10

  Benna, Mehdi ^a   Anderson, Brian J ^b   Baker, Daniel N ^c   Boardsen, Scott A ^a   Gloeckler, George ^d   Gold, Robert E ^b   Ho, George C ^b   Killen, Rosemary M ^a   Korth, Haje ^b   Krimigis, Stamatios M ^b   Purucker, Michael E ^a   McNutt, Ralph L ^b   Raines, Jim M ^d   McClintock, William E ^c   Sarantos, Menelaos ^a   Slavin, James A ^a   Solomon, Sean C ^e   Zurbuchen, Thomas H ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic fields; Magnetospheres; Mercury

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955327779     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.11.036     Document Type: Article

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