The atmospheric influence, size and possible asteroidal nature of the July 2009 Jupiter impactor

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 587-602

  Orton, G S ^a   Fletcher, L N ^b   Lisse, C M ^c   Chodas, P W ^a   Cheng, A ^c   Yanamandra Fisher, P A ^a   Baines, K H ^a   Fisher, B M ^a   Wesley, A ^d   Perez Hoyos, S ^e   De Pater, I ^f   Hammel, H B ^g   Edwards, M L ^h   Ingersoll, A P ⁱ   Mousis, O ^j   Marchis, F ^f,k   Golisch, W ^l   Sanchez Lavega, A ^e   Simon Miller, A A ^m   Hueso, R ^e   Momary, T W ^a   Greene, Z ⁿ   Reshetnikov, N ^o   Otto, E ^p   Villar, G ^q   Lai, S ^r   Wong, M H ^s   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Acquerra Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Space Science Institute ^*  (United States)

^h GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j Université Bourgogne Franche Comté   (France)

^k SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^m NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^s NASA Hubble Fellowship Program   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Asteroids; Comets; Impact processes; Infrared observations; Jupiter

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650940505     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.10.010     Document Type: Article

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