Particulate Mass Loss from Comet Hale-Bopp

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Feb 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999aj....117.1056j&link_type=abstract

The Astronomical Journal, Volume 117, Issue 2, pp. 1056-1062.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Comets: General, Comets: Individual: Name: Hale-Bopp 1995 O1, Radio Continuum

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Large particles may be present in comets in numbers sufficient to dominate the total mass of the coma. These large particles are not readily sensed by conventional (optical - infrared) techniques but are prominent at submillimeter wavelengths. Images taken using a new camera sensitive to submillimeter wavelengths reveal that comet Hale-Bopp was a prodigious source of particulate matter, releasing dust at 2000 metric tons per second when near perihelion and contributing 3x10^13 kg to the interplanetary dust complex. The dust production rate exceeded that of gas (mostly water) by a factor greater than 5.

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