Main Belt Comets: Status Report of the Monitoring Large Programme at ESO

Hainaut, O. R.; Boehnhardt, H.; Buie, M.; Hsieh, H.; Kleyna, J.; Licandro, J.; Lowry, S.; Meech, K. J.; Mueller, B. E. A.; Protopapa, S.; Snodgrass, C.; Tozzi, G. P.; Carraro, G.
Bibliographical reference

Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2012, Proceedings of the conference held May 16-20, 2012 in Niigata, Japan. LPI Contribution No. 1667, id.6144

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2012
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13
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1
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Description
A status report of the 4-years long ESO Large Program, aimed at monitoring and characterizing Main Belt Comets. The program is 50% completed. Some of the MBCs were observed active. In some cases, the dust is the aftermath of an impact.