Gas-to-Dust Ratio of Two Comets: Implication for Inhomogeneity of Cometary Nuclei?

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Oct 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997pasj...49l..41k&link_type=abstract

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, v.49, p.L41-L44.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Comets: Individual (C/1996Q1 Tabur), Spectroscopy, Solar System: General

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We performed spectroscopic observations of Comet Tabur (C/1996Q1) from 1996 September 14 to October 16, on 9 nights. The gas-to-dust ratio was determined for C/Tabur, and compared with that of Comet Liller (C/1988A1), whose orbital elements are quite similar to those of C/Tabur. The gas-to-dust mass ratio obtained for C/Tabur is one order larger than C/Liller. Because this similarity of the orbits indicates a splitting of these comets in the past, the obtained difference in the gas-to-dust mass ratio should be due to an inhomogeneity of the cometary nucleus.

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