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P/Halley, the Model Comet, in View of the Imaging Experiment Aboard the Vega Spacecraft

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

K. Szegő
K. Szegő*
Affiliation:
Central Research Institute for PhysicsP.O. Box 49 H-1525 BudapestHungary

Abstract.

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In this paper, those results of the VEGA imaging experiments are summarized that probably have general validity for any comet. Shape, size, surface structure, jet activity, and rotation pattern are considered in this respect. It is pointed out that imaging data provide indispensable information for an understanding of cometary activity.

Type
Section IV: The Cometary Nucleus
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 116 , Issue 2: Comets in the Post-Halley Era , 1991 , pp. 723 - 731
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991

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