The effect of internal inhomogeneity on the activity of comet nuclei - Application to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Icarus

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 753-765

  Rosenberg, Eric D ^a   Prialnik, Dina ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Comets; Comets, Nucleus

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956289815     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.03.037     Document Type: Article

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