Comet 67P/CG: Influence of the sublimation coefficient on the temperature and outgassing

Icarus

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 172-177

  Kossacki, Konrad J ^a   Markiewicz, Wojciech J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comets; Comets nucleus; Ices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875676303     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.02.012     Document Type: Article

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