Short Period Comets - Astrophysics

Relevant Publications

The Formation of Bilobate Comet Shapes through Sublimative Torques.

Issue Release: 2021

Unusual polarimetric properties for interstellar comet 2I/Borisov.

Issue Release: 2021

A rapid decrease in the rotation rate of comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák.

Issue Release: 2018

A Survey of Water Production in 61 Comets from SOHO/SWAN Observations of Hydrogen Lyman-alpha: Twenty-One Years 1996-2016.

Issue Release: 2018

DEFENDING THE EARTH FROM LONG-PERIOD COMETS AND SNEAKY ASTEROIDS: SHORT TERM THREAT RESPONSE REQUIRES LONG TERM PREPARATION.

Issue Release: 2018

Fission and reconfiguration of bilobate comets as revealed by 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Issue Release: 2016

The comet assay, DNA damage, DNA repair and cytotoxicity: hedgehogs are not always dead.

Issue Release: 2013

Compositional homogeneity in the fragmented comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3.

Issue Release: 2007

The Kuiper belt and the solar system\'s comet disk.

Issue Release: 2005

Crystalline water ice on the Kuiper belt object (50000) Quaoar.

Issue Release: 2004

The binary Kuiper-belt object 1998 WW31.

Issue Release: 2002

The size and albedo of the Kuiper-belt object (20000) Varuna.

Issue Release: 2001

Detection of CO and Ethane in Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner: Evidence for Variable Chemistry in the Outer Solar Nebula.

Issue Release: 2000

Cometary deuterium.

Issue Release: 1999

Cratering rates on the Galilean satellites.

Issue Release: 1998

Short-Period Comets: Primordial Bodies or Collisional Fragments?

Issue Release: 1996

The dust coma of Comet P/Giacobini-Zinner in the infrared.

Issue Release: 1992

Cometary habitats for primitive life.

Issue Release: 1992

On the temperature and gas composition in the region of comet formation.

Issue Release: 1989

Temperatures within comet nuclei.

Issue Release: 1985

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