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Comets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

H.U. Keller
H.U. Keller*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für AeronomieD-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany

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Comets, the most pristine members of our solar system, are faint at large heliocentric distances (rh > 3 au) and therefore difficult to observe. Data reduction of these faint objects (periodic comets) is time consuming and hence most often just preliminary results can be discussed. Only the orbits of short periodic comets can be predicted and most of those that have been accessible for ISO have been covered within the guaranteed time programme. About 10 proposals were accepted by the selection for open time proposals. A target of opportunity team was formed. The outstanding comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 01), one of the brightest and therefore most active comets of this century, was suggested and accepted as TOO. The important results from the ISO cometary programme are derived from its observations. In addition to the observations of "classic" comets the newly detected (Jewitt and Luu, 1993) transneptunian objects, probably objects from the Kuiper belt, are observed in an attempt to determine their physical properties.

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III. Special Scientific Sessions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 11 , Issue 2: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIIIrd General Assembly of the IAU (Part B), 1997 , 1998 , pp. 1155 - 1156
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Copyright © Kluwer 1998

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