Dormant Phases in the Aging of Periodic Comets

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Nov 1987

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol.187, NO. 1+2/NOV, P. 906, 1987

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Implications of the observations of P/Halley for the problem of comet aging are discussed. It is suggested that the active lifetimes of short-period comets are intermitted by dormant phases during which they remain completely, or almost completely, inactive. Such phases are tentatively identified for several short-period comets by the absence of observations of their prediscovery apparitions at which they should have been very bright and favourably placed.

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