Comets formed in solar-nebula instabilities! - An experimental and modeling attempt to relate the activity of comets to their formation process

Icarus

Volumn 235, Issue , 2014, Pages 156-169

  Blum, J ^a   Gundlach, B ^a   Muhle S ^a   Trigo Rodriguez, J M ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Comets; Comets, nucleus; Comets, origin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898669870     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.03.016     Document Type: Article

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