Cometary Atmospheres

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2152b&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2152. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Comets

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A gaseous and dusty atmosphere develops around cometary nuclei when they approach the Sun and are heated and then abates during the outward motion in the orbit. This atmosphere, or coma, consists of evaporated molecules and their daughter products (atoms, radicals, ions), and grains that have been entrained by the sublimated gases. It is the brightest component of COMETS and the most closely obse...

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