The landing(s) of Philae and inferences about comet surface mechanical properties

Science

Volumn 349, Issue 6247, 2015, Pages

  Biele, Jens ^a   Ulamec, Stephan ^a   Maibaum, Michael ^a   Roll, Reinhard ^b   Witte, Lars ^a   Jurado, Eric ^g   Muñoz, Pablo ^c   Arnold, Walter ^h,i   Auster, Hans Ulrich ^d   Casas, Carlos ^c   Faber, Claudia ^a   Fantinati, Cinzia ^a   Finke, Felix ^a   Fischer, Hans Herbert ^a   Geurts, Koen ^a   Güttler, Carsten ^b   Heinisch, Philip ^d   Herique, Alain ^f   Hviid, Stubbe ^a   Kargl, Günter ^e   Knapmeyer, Martin ^a   Knollenberg, Jörg ^a   Kofman, Wlodek ^f   Kömle, Norbert ^e   Kührt, Ekkehard ^a   Lommatsch, Valentina ^a   Mottola, Stefano ^a   De Santayana, Ramon Pardo ^c   Remetean, Emile ^g   Scholten, Frank ^a   Seidensticker, Klaus J ^a   Sierks, Holger ^b   Spohn, Tilman ^a   more..

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c ESA ESOC   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^e Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^f UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^g CNES   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

ⁱ SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMET; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; SPACECRAFT; TRAJECTORY;

ACCELEROMETER; ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CAMERA; COMET; ELASTICITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MECHANICS; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SPACE FLIGHT; VELOCITY;

EID: 84940421453     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa9816     Document Type: Article

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