The interior of a cometary nucleus

Details The interior of a cometary nucleus The interior of a cometary nucleus

Jul 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996p%26ss...44..705h&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, v. 44, p. 705-710.

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The interior of a cometary nucleus is probably full of holes, these having a size distribution that echoes that of the major snowball cometesimal components. Considering the compositional similarities between comets and the satellites of the outer planets, coupled with the ``fractal'' nature of cometary structure it is concluded that comets probably have mean densities in the 0.03-0.1 g cm-3 range. Comets are thus extremely fragile objects with very low surface strengths.

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