Astrophysical: Comets

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    (65) Cybele: detection of small silicate grains, water-ice, and organics

    Context. (65) Cybele is the most representative member of a population of primitive asteroids in the outer edge of the main belt, the Cybele asteroids. Recent...

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    10 μm observations of SL-9 crash onto Jupiter with CAMIRAS at NOT.

    From July 16th to July 27th, the authors have used the Saclay Mid-IR camera, CAMIRAS, mounted on the 2.5 m Nordic Optical Telescope (La Palma island, Spain) to...

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    A catalog of observed nuclear magnitudes of Jupiter family comets

    A catalog of a sample of 105 Jupiter family (JF) comets (defined as those with Tisserand constants T > 2 and orbital periods P

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    A jet-related colour change in the inner coma of comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1)?

    Comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1) has been intensely monitored with the 82cm IAC-80 Telescope at Teide Observatory, Tenerife, Spain. Multicolour photometry taken on...

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    A Short-duration Event as the Cause of Dust Ejection from Main-Belt Comet P/2012 F5 (Gibbs)

    We present observations and an interpretative model of the dust environment of the Main-Belt Comet P/2010 F5 (Gibbs). The narrow dust trails observed can be...

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    Behaviour of Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner during the 1998 perihelion

    Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner was observed from Nov. 8 to Dec. 10, 1998. Pre- and post-perihelion CCD images of the gas (CN, C2) and dust (green and red continua)...

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    Blending the distinctions among groups of minor bodies: a portrait of the Centaur-comet "transition" object P/2010 C1 (Scotti)

    Aims: We present a portrait of the active Centaur P/2010 C1 (Scotti), observed with a well developed comet-like activity (central diffuse coma condensation and...

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    Characterization of the June epsilon Ophiuchids meteoroid stream and the comet 300P/Catalina

    Aims: Prior to 2019, the June epsilon Ophiuchids (JEO) were known as a minor unconfirmed meteor shower with activity that was considered typically moderate for...