Abstract A well-developed dusty cometary atmosphere extends to distances over 4 orders of magnitude larger than the size of the nucleus. Pre-encounter models of the inner coma were based on the assumption that a spherically symmetric description was adequate to describe the dust-gas interaction region. Recent observational evidence together with a new generation of multidimensional theoretical models demonstrate that the inner cometary environment is far from spherical symmetry and a number of unexpected phenomena (dust jet broadening, subsolar dust spike formation, etc.) might play a significant role in this region.


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    Title :

    Modeling of the cometary nucleus-coma interface region


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    Publication date :

    1989-01-01


    Size :

    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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