The temperature, thermal inertia, roughness and color of the nuclei of Comets 103P/Hartley 2 and 9P/Tempel 1

Icarus

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 580-594

  Groussin, O ^a   Sunshine, J M ^b   Feaga, L M ^b   Jorda, L ^a   Thomas, P C ^c   Li, J Y ^b   A'Hearn, M F ^b   Belton, M J S ^d   Besse, S ^b   Carcich, B ^c   Farnham, T L ^b   Hampton, D ^e   Klaasen, K ^f   Lisse, C ^g   Merlin, F ^h   Protopapa, S ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center   (United States)

^d Belton Space Exploration Initiatives LLC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^h UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Comet Tempel 1; Comets; Comets, Nucleus; Infrared observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873526790     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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