The organic nature of cometary grains
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N. C. Wickramasinghe; M. K. Wallis; S. Al-Mufti; F. Hoyle; D. T. Wickramasinghe
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Article
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1988
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Infrared observations of comets over the 2-4 pm waveband are interpreted in terms of a model with varying contributions from bacterial-type and viral-type particles, and with small additional contributions arising from degraded organic molecules at grain surfaces.