Cometary dust trails. I - Survey

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Feb 1992

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Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 95, Feb. 1992, p. 180-210. Research supported by NASA.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Comet Tails, Infrared Astronomy, Interplanetary Dust, Sky Surveys (Astronomy), Infrared Astronomy Satellite, Spatial Distribution

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Cometary dust trails furnish insight into the nature, origin, and evolution of comets, as well as into the relationship of comets to both asteroids and the zodiacal dust complex. A several years-long effort has been made to identify all dust trails detected over the course of IRAS observations, as well as to ascertain the comets' parent bodies. On the basis of a total of eight trails associated with known short-period comets, it is inferred that the trail phenomenon is common to all comets of this type; it is further conjectured that spaceborne IR detectors will observe a different ensemble of trails, as other comets pass perihelion.

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