Water-ice driven activity on Main-Belt Comet P/2010 A2 (LINEAR) ?

Details Water-ice driven activity on Main-Belt Comet P/2010 A2 (LINEAR) ? Water-ice driven activity on Main-Belt Comet P/2010 A2 (LINEAR) ?

2010-06-30

arxiv.org/abs/1006.5832v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Accepted for ApJ Letters

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The dust ejecta of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 A2 (LINEAR) have been observed with several telescopes at the at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on La Palma, Spain. Application of an inverse dust tail Monte Carlo method to the images of the dust ejecta from the object indicates that a sustained, likely water-ice driven, activity over some eight months is the mechanism responsible for the formation of the observed tail. The total amount of dust released is estimated to be 5E7 kg, which represents about 0.3% of the nucleus mass. While the event could have been triggered by a collision, this cannot be decided from the currently available data.

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