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Scientific Possibilities of a Solar Electric Powered Rendezvous with Comet Encke

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Ray L. Newburn Jr. ,
C. Elachi ,
F. P. Fanale ,
C. E. Giffin ,
L. D. Jaffe ,
R. H. Parker ,
F. W. Taylor  and
T. E. Thorpe

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The present observational problem of understanding the nature and origin of comets is analogous to that we would face in attempting to understand a planet and its atmosphere if we possessed only data on its ionosphere and exosphere. Virtually everything we can observe remotely is a part of the rapidly escaping gas and dust atmosphere of the comet.

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Part II
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 25 , Issue Part2: The Study of Comets , 1976 , pp. 1071 - 1083
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1976

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