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Apr 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007sosyr..41..109b&link_type=abstract
Solar System Research, Volume 41, Issue 2, pp.109-117
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The paper considers morphology of craters, smooth surfaces, and flows as well as signatures of layering observed on nuclei of Borrelly, Wild 2, and Tempel 1. In our analysis, we emphasize the role of the so-called planation process, which involves avalanche-type flows and can be responsible for the formation of flow-like features, smooth terrains, terraces, and flat floors of some craters observed on cometary nuclei. In agreement with some other researchers (e.g., Belton, 2006), we suggest that in the thicker layers on Tempel 1 and in some features on Borrelly and Wild 2, we may see elements of the comet primordial structure. We also see more and less degraded impact craters formed early in the comet history in distant parts of the Solar System and landforms formed very recently during comet visits to the inner part of the Solar System. The recent resurfacing processes certainly changed the nucleus surface materials, possibly enhancing the sublimation of volatile species, so it should be taken into account in interpretations of the Deep Impact results and in selecting study areas when the Rosetta spacecraft will approach its target comet.
Basilevsky Alexander T.
Uwe Keller Horst
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