Tidal Disruption of Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and a Constraint on Its Mean Density

• 1 February 1994
• journal article
• research article
• Published by Elsevier in Icarus
• Vol. 107  (2) , 422-426
• https://doi.org/10.1006/icar.1994.1035

Abstract

Keywords

• TIDAL DISRUPTION
• SHOEMAKER LEVY
• PERIODIC COMET
• COMET SHOEMAKER
• MEAN DENSITY
• DISRUPTION OF PERIODIC