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Monte Carlo Models of Comet Dust Tails Observed from the Ground
Universe, 2022 Dust particles leaving the comet nucleus surface are entrained by the gas within the first few nuclear radius distances and are subjected to a complex hydrodynamical environment.
Fernando Moreno
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MUPUS insertion device for the Rosetta mission
Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2023 An original mechanical device designed to insert a penetrator into a cometary nucleus in an almost gravityfree environment is described. The device comprises a hammer and a power supply system that stores electrical energy in a capacitor.
Jerzy Grygorczuk +3 more
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The activity characteristics and mechanisms of long-period comets
Earth and Planetary PhysicsComets are small celestial bodies orbiting around the Sun. They are remnants left over from the formation of the solar system; their interiors store original material of the planetary disk within the solar system. They are thus "fossils" for studying the
YingQi Wu +3 more
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Life, 2018 In the “comet pond” model, a rare combination of circumstances enables the entry and landing of pristine organic material onto a planetary surface with the creation of a pond by a soft impact and melting of entrained ices.
Benton C. Clark, Vera M. Kolb
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Evidence for geologic processes on comets [PDF]
, 2016 Spacecraft missions have resolved the nuclei of six periodic comets and revealed a set of geologically intriguing and active small bodies. The shapes of these cometary nuclei are dominantly bilobate reflecting their formation from smaller cometesimals ...
Farnham, T.L. +7 more
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Comets of the Marsden and Kracht groups
Open Astronomy, 2018 Perihelion distances of Marsden and Kracht group comets fall into the range 6RS < q < 12RS (the Meyer group comets also share the same perihelion interval).
Kalinicheva Olga V.
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Predictions of the solar wind interaction with Comet Grigg-Skjellerup [PDF]
, 1992 The planned encounter of the Giotto spacecraft with comet Grigg-Skjellerup on 10th July 1992 promises to extend our knowledge of the solar wind interaction with comets substantially.
Johnstone, AD +2 more
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