Astrophysical: Comets

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    The Breakup of C/1999 S4 (Linear), Days 0-10
    The evolution of the morphology of C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) is examined from a series of images taken from shortly before the disruption of the nucleus until 10 days...
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    The Castalia mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro
    We describe Castalia, a proposed mission to rendezvous with a Main Belt Comet (MBC), 133P/Elst-Pizarro. MBCs are a recently discovered population of apparently...
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    The comet NEOWISE from the Canaries
    During the month of July we will be able to see comet c/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) with the naked eye from the Canaries and from the Peninsula.
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    The cometary contribution to planetary impact rates
    We use statistics on the nuclear magnitudes of Jupiter Family comets to derive the number of km-sized members with perihelion distances less than 2 AU. When...
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    The Dust Environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra)
    We present a model of the dust environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra) from images acquired during the period 2010 October-2011 January. The tails...
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    The Dust Environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS)
    The Main-Belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS) has been imaged using the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope at six epochs in...
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    The dust tail of Comet C/1999 T1 McNaught-Hartley
    A numerical method to compute cometary dust tail brightnesses has been developed. The method, analogous in many ways to the inverse Monte Carlo method proposed...
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    The Effect of Seeing Variations in Time-Series CCD Inner Coma Photometry of Comets: A New Correction Method
    Time series CCD photometry of the inner coma of active comets has been used over the last twenty years to determine the rotation period of their nucleus...
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    The First Post-Kepler Brightness Dips of KIC 8462852
    We present a photometric detection of the first brightness dips of the unique variable star KIC 8462852 since the end of the Kepler space mission in 2013 May...