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Cometary Molecules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Lewis E. Snyder
Lewis E. Snyder*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Dept., University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois U.S.A.

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Which molecular species are firmly identified as cometary species and which are also interstellar? How may excitation effects bias the data interpretation?

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Solar System
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 150: Astrochemistry of Cosmic Phenomena , 1992 , pp. 427 - 434
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Copyright © Kluwer 1992 

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