Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997aps..tsf..bc07n&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, Texas Section Fall Meeting, October 10-11, 1997, abstract #BC.07
Physics
Scientific paper
Hale-Bopp is a long period comet which was sighted in 1995 outside the orbit of Saturn. The trajectories and eventual fates of dust grains ejected from the comet's surface depend strongly upon their size. Smaller dust (with radii approximately equal to or smaller than 1 micron) will generally be blown out of the solar system by radiation pressure while larger dust particles (with radii approximately equal to or larger than 1000 microns) customarily remain in the original orbit of the comet with only minimal perturbation. As a result, particles with radii between 10 microns and 100 microns experience the most intriguing behavior. Their orbital behavior is influenced by radiation pressure, the Poynting-Robertson effect, gravitational perturbations of the planets as well as the Lorentz force. These forces when coupled with the close flyby of Jupiter (within .7 AU) provide an opportunity for significant perturbations to the dust grains. Recent numerical modeling results of dust grain orbital parameters confirm the presence of complex trajectories for these medium size grains.
Hyde Truell W.
Nazzario Raymond
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