Indication for precession of Comet Halley's nucleus from dust tail analysis

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Feb 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990em%26p...48..127b&link_type=abstract

Earth, Moon, and Planets (ISSN 0167-9295), vol. 48, Feb. 1990, p. 127-137.

Computer Science

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Comet Nuclei, Comet Tails, Halley'S Comet, Interplanetary Dust, Precession, Brightness Distribution, Computerized Simulation, Giotto Mission

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The distinct structures in Comet Halley's dust tail around the beginning of March 1986 are analyzed by means of a computer simulation based on nucleus data obtained by the Giotto mission. It is shown that the assumption of a considerable free precession is required to understand the ground-based dust-tail observations from that time, supposing a rotational period of some 50 h. But a precession-free rotation with a period of about 7 days does not contradict an analysis of the dust-tail structure. In both cases, an asymmetric distribution of the relevant emission sources is required.

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