The size, mass, mass loss and age of Halley's comet

Details The size, mass, mass loss and age of Halley's comet The size, mass, mass loss and age of Halley's comet

Mar 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985mnras.213..103h&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 213, March 1, 1985, p. 103-109.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Chronology, Comet Nuclei, Halley'S Comet, Mass Flow, Meteoroid Showers, Size (Dimensions), Albedo, Magnitude

Scientific paper

Halley's comet (1910 II, 1982i) has a D2pv value of 5.90±0.33 km2, where D km is the diameter of the nucleus and pv is the geometric albedo. The mass of the nucleus is 7.5×1015ρpv-1.5g, where ρ is the density. Reasonable assumptions yield diameter and mass values of 9.4 km and 2.2×1017g. In the 1910 apparition the comet lost a mass of 2.8×1014g which is equivalent to an absolute magnitude change of 9×10-4 per apparition. The mass of the meteor stream, produced by the decay of P/Halley, is consistent with the statement that the comet has had 2300 previous close passages of the Sun.

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