The Nucleus Rotation of Comet 1996 B2 (Hyakutake)

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Sep 1996

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #28, #09.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1088

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Comet Hyakutake was observed for 5.3 hours (4 orbits) with the Hubble Space Telescope on 1996 April 2 UT. Highly curved dust jets observed to change over 20 minutes and between orbits serve as spatial and temporal fiducials from which the dust ejection velocity can be measured and nucleus rotation derived. The projected radial velocity of 400 (+-50) m/sec coupled with the curvature and position angle change of 0.48 (+-0.02) degrees/minute indicate a rotation period of 12.5 (+-0.5) hours. This is consistent with the reported lightcurve being double-peaked due to two observed major jets nearly 180 degrees apart.

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