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Morphology of Cometary Dust Coma and Tail

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

Z. Sekanina
Z. Sekanina*
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109

Abstract

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This paper summarizes some recent progress in our understanding of the morphological diversity of dust comets. This diversity is a product of dust emission from discrete active areas on the nucleus surface and provides information on the comet's rotation state and source function. Advances in computer simulations of large-scale dust coma morphology are described and the diagnostic properties of various dusty features are emphasized. Also addressed are some of the issues of dust tail morphology and particle fragmentation. Finally, constraints on the mass, size, and velocity field of the dust population of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 are set from the object's morphological observations in 1993-94.

Type
X. Cometary Dust
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 150: Physics, Chemistry and Dynamics of Interplanetary Dust , 1996 , pp. 377 - 382
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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