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Structure of Comets and the Possible Origin of Faint Asteroids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

V. Vanýsek
V. Vanýsek*
Affiliation:
Charles University, Prague

Abstract

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It is shown that very old and still active icy-conglomerate or “clathrate” cometary nuclei may exist at the outer boundary of the asteroidal belt and belong to the group of relatively stable “outer” short-period comets of which only a small fraction have been discovered or recognized as cometary objects.hich is much more convincing, it explains their brightness dependence on the heliocentric distance.

The search for these comets among very faint asteroids with the mean motion μ ≤ 600”, and the study of their behavior could be very important to our knowledge about the final stage of cometary nuclei.

Type
Part II-Origin of Asteroids Interrelations with Comets, Meteorites, and Meteors
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 12: Physical Studies of Minor Planets , 1971 , pp. 465 - 469
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1971

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