The Evolution of Activity and Chemical Composition in Rosetta’s Comet Targets across Multiple Apparitions: Complications for CS2 as the CS Parent in Comet Nuclei

The Evolution of Activity and Chemical Composition in Rosetta’s Comet Targets across Multiple Apparitions: Complications for CS2 as the CS Parent in Comet Nuclei

Jupiter-family comets are ephemeral small bodies injected into the inner solar system from the Kuiper Belt, doomed to either sublimate all their volatiles and become inert or violently shatter from the activity. We investigate two target candidates of the ESA Rosetta mission, comets 46P/Wirtanen and...

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Main Authors: John W. Noonan, Joel Wm. Parker, Walter M. Harris, Steven Bromley, Mohammad Saki, Youssef Moulane, Davide Farnocchia, Marco Micheli, Jian-Yang Li, Kathleen E. Mandt, Kumar Venkataramani, Dennis Bodewits
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Planetary Science Journal
Subjects:
Short period comets
Ultraviolet observatories
Hubble Space Telescope
Atomic spectroscopy
Molecular spectroscopy
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/accb58

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