An Observational Limit of Decameter Scale Fragment Mass Loss from Comets

Details An Observational Limit of Decameter Scale Fragment Mass Loss from Comets An Observational Limit of Decameter Scale Fragment Mass Loss from Comets

Oct 2007

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #39, #54.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.525

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We use the wide-field instrument MegaCam on the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope to survey the sky within 0.5° of eight Jupiter Family comets (JFCs) for fragments as small as 50m in diameter. Preliminary results indicate calving of decameter scale fragments from cometary nuclei is uncommon. This implies that JFCs do not contain sub-units in this size regime but are rather homogeneous bodies formed from much smaller building blocks typical of those found in cometary dust tails. We present an observational size limit on cometary fragments and explore the implications for the structure of cometary nuclei.

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