Density and size of comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 deduced from a tidal breakup model
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- 1 August 1994
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 370 (6488), 349-351
- https://doi.org/10.1038/370349a0
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