Observations of Halley's Comet by the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM)

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Mar 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986esasp1066..135n&link_type=abstract

In ESA Space Missions to Halley's Comet p 135-143 (SEE N86-32452 24-12)

Physics

Plasma Physics

Halley'S Comet, Solar Maximum Mission, Spaceborne Astronomy, Comet Tails, Plasma Physics, Polarimeters, Ultraviolet Spectrometers

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Solar Maximum Mission coronagraph/polarimeter observations of large scale phenomena in Halley's Comet are discussed. Observations of the hydrogen coma with the UV spectrometer are considered. It is concluded that coronograph/polarimeter observations of the disconnection event, in which the entire plasma tail uproots itself from the head of the comet, is convected away in the solar wind at speeds in the 50 to 100 km/sec range (relative to the head), and is replaced by a plasma tail constructed from folding ion-tail rays, are the most interesting.

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