Stardust-NExT, Deep Impact, and the accelerating spin of 9P/Tempel 1

Icarus

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 345-368

  Belton, Michael J S ^a   Meech, Karen J ^b   Chesley, Steven ^c   Pittichová, Jana ^b   Carcich, Brian ^d   Drahus, Michal ^e   Harris, Alan ^f   Gillam, Stephen ^c   Veverka, Joseph ^d   Mastrodemos, Nicholas ^c   Owen, William ^c   A'Hearn, Michael F ^g   Bagnulo, S ^h   Bai, J ⁱ   Barrera, L ^j   Bastien, Fabienne ^g   Bauer, James M ^c   Bedient, J ^k   Bhatt, B C ^l   Boehnhardt, Hermann ^m   Brosch, N ⁿ   Buie, Marc ^o   Candia, Pablo ^p   Chen, W P ^q   Chiang, P ^q   Choi, Young Jun ^r   Cochran, A ^s   Crockett, Christopher J ^g   Duddy, S ^t   Farnham, Tony ^g   Fernández, Yan R ^u   Gutiérrez, Pedro ^v   Hainaut, Olivier R ^w   Hampton, Donald ^x   Herrmann, Kimberly A ^y   Hsieh, Henry ^b   Kadooka, M A ^b   Kaluna, H ^b   Keane, J ^b   Kim, M J ^z   Klaasen, Kenneth ^c   Kleyna, J ^b   Krisciunas, Kevin ^aa   Lara, Luisa M ^v   Lauer, Tod R ^ab   Li, Jian Yang ^g   Licandro, Javier ^ac,ad   Lisse, Carey M ^ae   Lowry, Stephen C ^t   McFadden, Lucy ^af   Moskovitz, N ^ag   Mueller, Beatrice ^ah   Polishook, D ⁿ   Raja, N S ^b   Riesen, T ^b   Sahu, D K ^l   Samarasinha, Nalin ^ah   Sarid, G ^b   Sekiguchi, Tomohiko ^ai   Sonnett, S ^b   Suntzeff, Nicholas B ^aa   Taylor, Brian W ^y,aj   Thomas, Peter ^d   Tozzi, Gian Paolo ^ak   Vasundhara, R ^l   Vincent, J B ^m   Wasserman, Lawrence H ^y   Webster Schultz, Bryant ^al   Yang, B ^b   Zenn, T ^b   Zhao, H ^am   more..

^a Belton Space Exploration Initiatives LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Center for Exoplanetary Systems   (United States)

^g Bldg 142   (United States)

^h ARMAGH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^j UNIVERSIDAD METROPOLITANA DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN   (Chile)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^l INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^m MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

ⁿ TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^o SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^p GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^q NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^r Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)   (South Korea)

^s UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^u UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^v INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^w EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^x UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^y LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^z Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^aa TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ab NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^ac INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^ad UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

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

^af NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^ag GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^ah PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^ai NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^aj BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ak INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^al HAS   (United States)

^am CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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Author keywords

Comet Tempel 1; Comets; Comets, Nucleus; Rotational dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955165849     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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