Dust tail of the active distant Comet C/2003 WT42 (LINEAR) studied with photometric and spectroscopic observations

Icarus

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 916-929

  Korsun, Pavlo P ^a   Kulyk, Irina V ^a   Ivanova, Oleksandra V ^a   Afanasiev, Viktor L ^b   Kugel, Francois ^c   Rinner, Claudine ^c   Ivashchenko, Yuriy M ^d  

^a NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c Observatory Chante Perdrix   (France)

^d Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Comets; Photometry; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049528675     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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