A Search for Anomalous Tails of Short-period Comets

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Jun 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977msngr...9....5.&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, vol. 9, p. 5-6

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Should any future comet display a spectacular sunward spike like the one Comet Arend-Roland exhibited in late April 1957, it would not surprise observers any more. Recent dynamical studies of cometary dust by Z. Sekanina at the Centre for Astrophysics of the Harvard College and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatories led to the understanding of the behaviour of the sunward, "anomalous" tails or "antitails", to the recognition of the rules that determine the conditions of visibility of these phenomena, and thus to the possibility of their routine predictions.

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