Astrophysical: Comets

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    The activity of comet C/2007 D1 (LINEAR) at 9.7 AU from the Sun (Corrigendum)
    Based on observations collected at the Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), operated on the island of La Palma by the Centro Galileo Galilei of the INAF...
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    The Breakup of C/1999 S4 (Linear), Days 0-10
    The evolution of the morphology of C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) is examined from a series of images taken from shortly before the disruption of the nucleus until 10 days...
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    The Castalia mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro
    We describe Castalia, a proposed mission to rendezvous with a Main Belt Comet (MBC), 133P/Elst-Pizarro. MBCs are a recently discovered population of apparently...
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    The comet NEOWISE from the Canaries
    During the month of July we will be able to see comet c/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) with the naked eye from the Canaries and from the Peninsula.
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    The cometary contribution to planetary impact rates
    We use statistics on the nuclear magnitudes of Jupiter Family comets to derive the number of km-sized members with perihelion distances less than 2 AU. When...
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    The Dust Environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra)
    We present a model of the dust environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra) from images acquired during the period 2010 October-2011 January. The tails...
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    The Dust Environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS)
    The Main-Belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS) has been imaged using the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope at six epochs in...
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    The dust tail of Comet C/1999 T1 McNaught-Hartley
    A numerical method to compute cometary dust tail brightnesses has been developed. The method, analogous in many ways to the inverse Monte Carlo method proposed...
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    The Effect of Seeing Variations in Time-Series CCD Inner Coma Photometry of Comets: A New Correction Method
    Time series CCD photometry of the inner coma of active comets has been used over the last twenty years to determine the rotation period of their nucleus...