Formation of smooth terrains on Comet Tempel 1

@article{BarNun2008FormationOS,
  title={Formation of smooth terrains on Comet Tempel 1},
  author={Akiva Bar-Nun and Finnur P{\'a}lsson and Helgi K. Bj{\"o}rnsson},
  journal={Icarus},
  year={2008},
  volume={197},
  pages={164-168},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:27894476}
}
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