McDonald Observatory data on the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts on Jupiter and the resulting haze particles

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1299-1313

  Pryor, W R ^a   Na, C Y ^a   Cochran, A L ^b   Cochran, W D ^b   Barker, E S ^b   Armosky, B J ^b   Pulliam, C E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 9744253110     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-0633(97)00101-3     Document Type: Article

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