Comets - Groundbased observations of spacecraft mission candidates

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Jul 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992icar...98..115o&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 98, no. 1, July 1992, p. 115-124.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Comets, Flyby Missions, Mission Planning, Abundance, Astronomical Photometry, Comet Nuclei, Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby Mission, Grigg-Skjellerup Comet, Rendezvous Spacecraft, Volatility

Scientific paper

Ground-based narrowband photometry results are presented for nine candidate comets for flyby and/or rendezvous missions. The comets include Churyumov-Gerasimenko, d'Arrest, Encke, Grigg-Skjellerup, Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova, Kopff, Tempel 1, Tempel 2, and Wild 2. On the basis of measured OH production rates and a model of the sublimation of water from the surface, limits are derived on the size of each cometary nucleus. A detailed analysis of the characteristics of these nine viable mission candidates can furnish the bases for the prioritization of targets of prospective missions.

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