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Main Belt Comets and other “Interlopers” in the Solar System
Universe, 2022 According to traditional ideas about the formation of the Solar System starting from a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust, a well-defined distribution of planets and minor bodies is expected: (a) volatile-poor rocky bodies (terrestrial planets and ...
Vincenzo Orofino
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Spectroscopic Identification of Water Emission From a Main-Belt Comet [PDF]
Nature, 2023 AbstractMain-belt comets are small Solar System bodies located in the asteroid belt that repeatedly exhibit comet-like activity (that is, dust comae or tails) during their perihelion passages, strongly indicating ice sublimation1,2. Although the existence of main-belt comets implies the presence of extant water ice in the asteroid belt, no gas has been
Henry H. Hsieh +2 more
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Observational Characterization of Main-belt Comet and Candidate Main-belt Comet Nuclei
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 We report observations of nine main-belt comets (MBCs) or candidate MBCs, most of which were obtained when the targets were apparently inactive. We find effective nucleus radii (assuming albedos of p _V = 0.05 ± 0.02) of r _n = (0.24 ± 0.05) km for 238P ...
Henry H. Hsieh +11 more
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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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Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin of the dinosaur extinction
Scientific Reports, 2021 The origin of the Chicxulub impactor, which is attributed as the cause of the K/T mass extinction event, is an unsolved puzzle. The background impact rates of main-belt asteroids and long-period comets have been previously dismissed as being too low to ...
Amir Siraj, Abraham Loeb
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Evidence for the Disruption of a Planetary System During the Formation of the Helix Nebula
The Astronomical Journal, 2022 The persistence of planetary systems after their host stars evolve into their post-main-sequence phase is poorly constrained by observations. Many young white dwarf systems exhibit infrared excess emission and/or spectral absorption lines associated with
Jonathan P. Marshall +7 more
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NEOMOD: A New Orbital Distribution Model for Near-Earth Objects
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are a transient population of small bodies with orbits near or in the terrestrial planet region. They represent a mid-stage in the dynamical cycle of asteroids and comets, which starts with their removal from the respective ...
David Nesvorný +13 more
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Phase Curves of Kuiper Belt Objects, Centaurs, and Jupiter-family Comets from the ATLAS Survey
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 The Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), the Centaurs, and the Jupiter-family comets (JFCs) form an evolutionary continuum of small outer solar system objects, and their study allows us to gain insight into the history and evolution of the solar system. Broadband
Matthew M. Dobson +11 more
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On nature of evolution of short-period comets. On the question of short-period comets evolution
Vestnik Samarskogo Gosudarstvennogo Tehničeskogo Universiteta. Seriâ: Fiziko-Matematičeskie Nauki, 2007 The main hypothesis of short-period comets evolution are considered. Basing on the performed researches we conclude that the main sources of short-period comets are: main asteroid belt, relict asteroid belts between giant planets and the Kuiper belt.
A. F. Zausaev, A. A. Zausaev
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Ryugu’s Anhydrous Ingredients and Their Spectral Link to Primitive Dust from the Outer Solar System
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 Ryugu is a second-generation C-type asteroid formed by the reassembly of fragments of a previous larger body in the main asteroid belt. While the majority of Ryugu samples returned by Hayabusa2 are composed of a lithology dominated by aqueously altered ...
R. Brunetto +39 more
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