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Detection of comet nuclei at large heliocentric distances [PDF]

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1992
The largest long-period comets which have passed perihelion during the past half-century should still be observable. Fourteen candidate comets with well-determined orbits are presented, including data on their absolute magnitudes, distances and predicted positions in the sky.
M. E. Bailey, J. E. Chambers, G. Hahn
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A Sub‐Microsecond Switch Enabling SWIFT 23Na Imaging at 10.5 T

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose To enable sodium SWIFT imaging, which is a zero‐echo time imaging technique, at ultra‐high magnetic fields through the development of custom electronics hardware, and to showcase this capability with in vivo imaging results. Methods The custom hardware developed consists of a high‐speed optical trigger with 10 ns resolution, an in‐bore
Russell L. Lagore, Simon Schmidt, Edward J. Auerbach, Naoharu Kobayashi, Christoph Schildknecht, Steen Moeller, Elnaz Mahmoudi Mahmoudalilou, Štefan Zbýň, Jutta Ellermann, Gregor Adriany, Gregory J. Metzger   +10 more
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Modified comet assays for the detection of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers and oxidative base damages

Journal of Radiation and Cancer Research, 2017
The comet assay (also known as single-cell gel electrophoresis) is a technique for the detection of DNA damage at the level of the individual cell. It is a versatile, relatively simple to perform and sensitive method.
Ganesan Muthusamy, Agilan Balupillai, Kanimozhi Govindasamy, Karthikeyan Ramasamy, Veeramani Kandan Ponniresan, Illiyas Magbool Malla, Rajendra Prasad Nagarajan   +6 more
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From Flybys to Sample Return: A Review of Space Probes and Robotic Sampling Technologies for Small Bodies

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a crucial puzzle piece of deep space exploration, exploring small bodies can provide significant scientific insights and valuable mineral resources. Unlike missions to the Moon and Mars, small‐body missions pose distinct technical challenges, including communication delays, weak gravity, and uncertain environments. This paper reviews a full
Xin Zhang, Hao Zhou, Dalin Zhou, Zhaojie Ju   +3 more
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Late Pebble Accretion of Comet 81P/Wild 2 Nucleus: Evidence from a Plagioclase-bearing Chondrule Fragment, Pyxie

The Astrophysical Journal
Comet 81P/Wild 2 is a ∼4.5 km-sized primordial object that almost has not been modified by internal heating by ^26 Al decay. Its nucleus could have been formed by hierarchical agglomeration or gravitational collapse of pebble swarms concentrated by ...
Mingming Zhang, Michael E. Zolensky, Kohei Fukuda, Daisuke Nakashima, Michael K. Weisberg, Noriko T. Kita   +5 more
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FUV Observations of the Inner Coma of 46P/Wirtanen

The Planetary Science Journal, 2021
Far-ultraviolet observations of comets yield information about the energetic processes that dissociate the sublimated gases from their primitive surfaces.
John W. Noonan, Walter M. Harris, Steven Bromley, Davide Farnocchia, Jian-Yang Li, Kathleen E. Mandt, Joel Wm. Parker, Kumar Venkataramani, Dennis Bodewits   +8 more
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First Assessment of Genetic Damage in the Speckled Cockroach (Nauphoeta cinerea) After Consumption of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) Cultivated and Commercialized in Northeastern, Brazil

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study reports, for the first time, the use of the speckled cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea as a promising bioindicator for genotoxic monitoring. It was validated through control groups (both positive and negative) in addition to testing lettuce (Lactuca sativa ) samples from public street markets consumed by N. cinerea specimens in Pernambuco,
Aleson Aparecido da Silva, Eduardo Henrique da Silva Melo, Érima Maria de Amorim, Maria Gislaine Pereira, Claudia Rohde   +4 more
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Multiple Outbursts of Halley-type Comet 12P/Pons–Brooks

The Astronomical Journal
We present optical observations of the Halley-type comet 12P/Pons–Brooks (12P) on its approach to perihelion. The comet was active even in the first observations at ∼8 au.
David Jewitt, Jane Luu
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Spin-dependent μ→e conversion

Physics Letters B, 2017
The experimental sensitivity to μ→e conversion on nuclei is expected to improve by four orders of magnitude in coming years. We consider the impact of μ→e flavour-changing tensor and axial-vector four-fermion operators which couple to the spin of ...
Vincenzo Cirigliano, Sacha Davidson, Yoshitaka Kuno   +2 more
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On measuring the size of nuclei of comets

, 2014
Possibilities of measuring the size of nuclei of comets hidden by dust clouds are discussed. To this end, the dust cloud should be irradiated with a flow of rods accelerated in a linear mass accelerator to the velocity six kilometers per second. Each rod should be equipped with a transmitter with a power of one microwatt, which is destroyed in a ...
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