Comet P/Holmes, 1892III - A case of duplicity?

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Dec 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984icar...60..522w&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 60, Dec. 1984, p. 522-531.

Physics

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Bursts, Comet Nuclei, Comets, Magnitude, Celestial Mechanics, Collisions, Grazing Incidence, Light Curve, Natural Satellites

Scientific paper

An analysis of observations of comet P/Holmes 1892III's two 8-10 mag bursts indicates that these phenomena are consistent with the grazing encounter of a small satellite with the nucleus on November 4.6, 1892, and the final encounter on January 16.3, 1893. While after the first burst the total magnitude fell less than 2 mag from November 7 to 30, the fading was much more rapid after the second burst. It is suggested that the grazing encounter distributed a volume of large chunks in the neighborhood of the nucleus, maintaining activity for weeks.

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