Pre-impact observations of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (S-L9) obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope are examined, and a model of an active, dust-producing comet is fitted to images of fragments G, H, K, and L. The model assumes steady isotropic dust emission from each fragment's sunlit hemisphere. Bes
Size distributions of circumplanetary dust
β Scribed by J.E. Colwell
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 740 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0273-1177
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