Infrared Radiation from Comet Hale-Bopp
Abstract
The infrared spectrum of Comet Hale-Bopp over the wavelength range 7.5 to 45 micrometers, obtained when it was at a heliocentric distance of 2.9 AU, is shown to be consistent with a model dominated by a mixed microbial culture including diatoms with an approximately 10% mass contribution from crystalline olivine. Crystalline olivine by itself is unable to account for the data.
- Publication:
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Vindication of Cosmic Biology: Tribute to Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)
- Pub Date:
- 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789814675260_0035
- Bibcode:
- 2015vcb..book..407W