Shape, density, and geology of the nucleus of Comet 103P/Hartley 2

Icarus

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 550-558

  Thomas, P C ^a   A'Hearn, Michael F ^b   Veverka, Joseph ^a   Belton, Michael J S ^c   Kissel, Jochen ^d   Klaasen, Kenneth P ^e   McFadden, Lucy A ^b,f   Melosh, H Jay ^g   Schultz, Peter H ^h   Besse, Sébastien ^b   Carcich, Brian T ^a   Farnham, Tony L ^b   Groussin, Olivier ⁱ   Hermalyn, Brendan ^h   Li, Jian Yang ^b   Lindler, Don J ^j   Lisse, Carey M ^k   Meech, Karen ^l   Richardson, James E ^g  

^a National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c Belton Space Exploration Initiatives LLC   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^j SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

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

^l UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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Author keywords

Comets; Comets, Nucleus; Geological processes; Geophysics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873482481     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.05.034     Document Type: Article

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