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Molecular Observations of Comets: Constraints for Planetary System Formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Jacques Crovisier
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, F-92195 Meudon, France
Nicolas Biver
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, F-92195 Meudon, France
Dominique Bockelée-Morvan
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, F-92195 Meudon, France
Pierre Colom
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, F-92195 Meudon, France
Didier Despois
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Bordeaux, France
D. C. Lis
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Heike Rauer
Affiliation:
DRL Inst. of Space Sensor Tech. and Planet. Explor., Berlin, Germany

Abstract

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We review our knowledge of the composition of cometary volatiles in the light of recent observations of comets C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) and C/1995 01 (Hale-Bopp) and examine how this could constrain models of planetary system formation.

Type
Part II: Progress in the theory of planet formation
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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