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Dec 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992acm..proc..459p&link_type=abstract
In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1991 p 459-467 (SEE N93-19113 06-90)
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Halley'S Comet, Precession, Rotation, Comet Nuclei, Light Curve, Moments Of Inertia, Perihelions, Periodic Variations, Solar Orbits
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Non principal axis rotation for comet Halley is inferred from dual periodicities evident in the observations. The modes where the spin axis precesses around the axis of minimum moment of inertia (long axis mode or LAM) and where it precesses around the axis of maximum moment of inertia (short axis mode or SAM) are described from an inertial point of view. The currently favored LAM model for Halley's rotation state satisfies observational and dynamical constraints that apparently no SAM can satisfy. But it cannot reproduce the observed post perihelion brightening through seasonal illumination of localized sources on the nucleus, whereas a SAM can easily produce post or pre perihelion brightening by this mechanism. However, the likelihood of a LAM rotation for elongated nuclei of periodic comets such as Halley together with Halley's extreme post perihelion behavior far from the Sun suggest that Halley's post perihelion brightening may be due to effects other than seasonal illumination of localized sources, and therefore such brightening may not constrain its rotation state.
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