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3.2 The Production Rate of Dust by Comets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A. H. Delsemme
A. H. Delsemme*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606

Abstract

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The present set of short-period comets produces only 250 kg/sec of dust whereas the flux of long-period and “new” comets produces an average of 20 tons/sec.

Type
3 Cometary Dust
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 31: Interplanetary Dust and Zodiacal Light , 1976 , pp. 314 - 318
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1976

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