Photometry of the nucleus of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 from Stardust-NExT flyby and the implications

Icarus

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 467-476

  Li, Jian Yang ^a   A'Hearn, Michael F ^a   Belton, Michael J S ^b   Farnham, Tony L ^a   Klaasen, Kenneth P ^c   Sunshine, Jessica M ^a   Thomas, Peter C ^d   Veverka, Joe ^d  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b Belton Space Exploration Initiatives LLC   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet Tempel 1; Comets; Nucleus; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873522967     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

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