Dust environment of Comet Halley

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Chemical Composition, Cosmic Dust, Halley'S Comet, Infrared Spectra, Comet Nuclei, Evolution (Development), Ice, Mass Distribution

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Recent major advances in the understanding of comet Halley's dust environment are highlighted and a wide range of related problems reviewed. Addressed individually are: selected spacecraft results, namely the dust composition, the detection of subfemtogram grains, and the particle-mass distribution; jets and the dust-emission pattern; the existence of discrete sources on the nucleus surface and the determination of their locations from day-to-day motions of coma features; CN jets; large-scale phenomena, including an antitail, streamers, and a sunward spike; infrared observations, highlighted by recent detections of the 3.4 μm emission feature, first applications of array detectors, and rare far-infrared data; the chemical modification of low-temperature ices by UV and cosmic-ray irradiation processes, their laboratory simulations, and applications to the evolution of comets; the "interstellar-connection" models of comet origin; and the formation of a mantle made of refractory organic material on the nucleus surface.

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