The spatial distribution of water in the inner coma of Comet 9P/Tempel 1: Comparison between models and observations

Icarus

Volumn 236, Issue , 2014, Pages 9-23

  Finklenburg, S ^a   Thomas, N ^a   Su, C C ^b   Wu, J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Comet Tempel 1; Comets, coma; Comets, nucleus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898810562     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.03.032     Document Type: Article

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