On the Importance of Dust in Cometary Nuclei

Details On the Importance of Dust in Cometary Nuclei On the Importance of Dust in Cometary Nuclei

Feb 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996em%26p...72...79k&link_type=abstract

Earth, Moon and Planets, Volume 72, Issue 1-3, pp. 79-89

Physics

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The icy conglomerate model introduced by Whipple more than 40 years ago has been widely accepted in cometary science because it is able to describe numerous cometary phenomena. In this model comets are described as a conglomerate of ices and dust where the ices represent the major component. However, some recent observations seem to favour dust rich comets. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the observational facts supporting the dominance of refractories in comets and to discuss the consequences of a dust dominated nucleus for cometary physics.

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