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An Overview of Comet Composition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2011

Dominique Bockelée-Morvan
Dominique Bockelée-Morvan*
Affiliation:
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, F92195, Meudon, France email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Comets are made of ices, organics and minerals that record the chemistry of the outer regions of the primitive solar nebula where they agglomerated 4.6 Gyr ago. Compositional analyses of comets can provide important clues on the chemical and physical processes that occurred in the early phases of Solar System formation, and possibly in the natal molecular cloud that predated the formation of the solar nebula. This paper presents a short review of our present knowledge of the composition of comets. Implications for the origin of cometary materials are discussed.

Keywords

comets : generalastrochemistrySolar System: formation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S280: The Molecular Universe , June 2011 , pp. 261 - 274
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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