Outbursts of comets-the case of 1P/Halley

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Mar 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002p%26ss...50..247g&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, Volume 50, Issue 3, p. 247-256.

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Possible mechanisms that were the reason of the unexpected strong outburst of 1P/Halley observed on February 12, 1991 at 14.3AU heliocentric distance have been considered. As a plausible mechanism, a combination of the polymerization of HCN with the amorphous water-ice transformation has been proposed. Probably, the electrostatic destruction of cometary grains in the cometary coma also took place. Calculations have been carried out for a large range of cometary parameters and it has been shown that the proposed scenario of the outburst gives a jump in the comet brightness which is consistent with the real jump observed during the 1P/Halley outburst.

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