Spacecraft and telescopic measurements of known comets reveal what characteristics to look for when trying to determine if a given asteroid-like NEO is a comet in disguise. For example, the inactive surface regions of comets Halley, Borrelly, Wild 2, and Tempel 1 are very dark (low albedo) ...
Capture Statistics of Short-Period Comets: Implications for Comet D/Shoemaker–Levy 9Capture Statistics of Short-Period Comets: Implications for Comet D/Shoemaker–Levy 9Theoretical or Mathematical/ cometsJupiter/ capture statisticsshort-period cometsComet...
medium-period cometsJupiter familyAn attempt is made to determine the spatial location of the main source of short-period comet nuclei. Numerical calculations for the orbital evolution of Jupiter family comets, medium-period comets, and Centaurs are used to show that the orbits of small solar ...
Miles, R.: Sloan-r' photometry of Comet 17P/Holmes beyond 3.8 AU: An observing methodology for short- period comets far from perihelion, Proc. 28th Annual Conf. Soc. for Astron. Sciences, 19-21 May 2009, Big Bear, California, pp. 51-62, 2009....
Miles, R.: Sloan-r' photometry of Comet 17P/Holmes beyond 3.8 AU: An observing methodology for short- period comets far from perihelion, Proc. 28th Annual Conf. Soc. for Astron. Sciences, 19-21 May 2009, Big Bear, California, pp. 51-62, 2009....
COMETSRELIEF modelsCOMPUTER simulationHEAT conductionUsing numerical models, we have studied what depth of the outer layer the comet nuclei are degassed to when they are in orbits whose perihelion is close to the Sun for tens of years. The problem is topical, because it helps to understand how...
A novel mechanism for outbursts of Comet 17P/Holmes and other short-period cometsRichard Miles