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Progress in our Understanding of Cometary Dust Tails
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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It is almost generally accepted that the essentially structureless and often significantly curved tails of comets are composed of sunlight-scattering solid particles of various sizes, ejected from the comet’s nucleus by evaporating gases. Much less agreement has so far been achieved as to the character, composition, and size distribution of the particles.
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- Part II
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 25 , Issue Part2: The Study of Comets , 1976 , pp. 893 - 942
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- Copyright © NASA 1976
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