A postencounter view of comets.
Abstract
Ground-based and space observations of Comet Halley during its 1986 perihelion passage are reviewed, with an emphasis on their implications for theoretical models. Consideration is given to the shape, surface morphology, and composition of the comet nucleus; the shape, dynamics, and composition of the dust tail; neutral and ionic gas species in the head and plasma tail; and the comet/solar-wind interaction. Extensive diagrams, graphs, and sample images are provided, and the potential value of the new kinds of data to be obtained with the NASA Comet-Rendezvous/Asteroid-Flyby spacecraft is discussed.
- Publication:
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Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1146/annurev.aa.26.090188.000303
- Bibcode:
- 1988ARA&A..26...11M
- Keywords:
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- Comet Nuclei;
- Comet Tails;
- Halley'S Comet;
- Solar Orbits;
- Space Observations (From Earth);
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby Mission;
- Data Acquisition;
- Giacobini-Zinner Comet;
- Interplanetary Dust;
- Iue;
- Nasa Programs;
- Plasma Interactions;
- Solar Maximum Mission;
- Solar Wind;
- Astrophysics;
- Comet 1985 XIII Giacobini-Zinner;
- Comet 1986 III Halley;
- Comets:Solar Wind;
- Comets:Space Missions;
- Solar Wind:Comets;
- Space Missions:Comets