ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] Due to the negligibly small gravitational field of the comet, its atmosphere expands freely into interplanetary space to distances of millions of kilometres, where it is ionized by solar ultraviolet radiation. The ionized particles of the cometary atmosphere form an ion beam in the solar-wind ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/321292a0
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