Eruptions of Comet Hale-Bopp at 6.5 AU
Abstract
The prodigious output of dust and CO observed in comet Hale-Bopp at a heliocentric distance of 6.5 AU is strongly suggestive of high-pressure release of material from liquified subsurface domains rather than thermal evaporation from a sunlit patch of frozen CO.
- Publication:
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Vindication of Cosmic Biology: Tribute to Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)
- Pub Date:
- 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789814675260_0034
- Bibcode:
- 2015vcb..book..401W