Publication Date:
2011-06-18
Description:
Understanding how comets work--what drives their activity--is crucial to the use of comets in studying the early solar system. EPOXI (Extrasolar Planet Observation and Deep Impact Extended Investigation) flew past comet 103P/Hartley 2, one with an unusually small but very active nucleus, taking both images and spectra. Unlike large, relatively inactive nuclei, this nucleus is outgassing primarily because of CO(2), which drags chunks of ice out of the nucleus. It also shows substantial differences in the relative abundance of volatiles from various parts of the nucleus.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉A'Hearn, Michael F -- Belton, Michael J S -- Delamere, W Alan -- Feaga, Lori M -- Hampton, Donald -- Kissel, Jochen -- Klaasen, Kenneth P -- McFadden, Lucy A -- Meech, Karen J -- Melosh, H Jay -- Schultz, Peter H -- Sunshine, Jessica M -- Thomas, Peter C -- Veverka, Joseph -- Wellnitz, Dennis D -- Yeomans, Donald K -- Besse, Sebastien -- Bodewits, Dennis -- Bowling, Timothy J -- Carcich, Brian T -- Collins, Steven M -- Farnham, Tony L -- Groussin, Olivier -- Hermalyn, Brendan -- Kelley, Michael S -- Li, Jian-Yang -- Lindler, Don J -- Lisse, Carey M -- McLaughlin, Stephanie A -- Merlin, Frederic -- Protopapa, Silvia -- Richardson, James E -- Williams, Jade L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Jun 17;332(6036):1396-400. doi: 10.1126/science.1204054.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2421 USA. ma@astro.umd.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21680835" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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