The Parent Volatile Composition of 103P/Hartley-2: Results from Pre-perihelion Observations at 1.6 AU.

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We searched for parent volatiles in comet 103P/Hartley-2 using high-resolution infrared spectroscopic observations with NIRSPEC at Keck-2 and CRIRES at VLT-1 in late July 2010, when the comet was at heliocentric distance 1.62 AU pre-perihelion. We targeted our usual suite of parent volatiles: H2O, CH3OH, C2H6, CH4, CO, HCN, H2CO, NH3, and C2H2. This presentation will report rotational temperatures and production rates for the detected species, and upper limits for those not detected.
This work was funded by NASA's Planetary Astronomy, Planetary Atmospheres, and Astrobiology Programs, by the NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Program, and the German-Israel Foundation for Scientific Research and Development.

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