Three case reports on the cometary plasma tail in the historical documents | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

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Issue		J. Space Weather Space Clim. Volume 11, 2021


Article Number		21
Number of page(s)		11
Section		Agora
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2020045
Published online		08 March 2021

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