A distribution of large particles in the coma of Comet 103P/Hartley 2

Icarus

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 634-652

  Kelley, Michael S ^a   Lindler, Don J ^b   Bodewits, Dennis ^a   A'Hearn, Michael F ^a   Lisse, Carey M ^c   Kolokolova, Ludmilla ^a   Kissel, Jochen ^d   Hermalyn, Brendan ^e  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

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

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets; Comets, Coma; Comets, Dust; Ices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873433002     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.09.037     Document Type: Article

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