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Michael F A'Hearn1

  • 1Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2421, USA ma@astro.umd.edu.

Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences
|May 31, 2017
PubMed

Keywords:
Churyumov–GerasimenkoRosettacometsformationoriginprotoplanetary disc

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