Astrophysical: Comets

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    EPOXI: Comet 103P/Hartley 2 Observations from a Worldwide Campaign
    Earth- and space-based observations provide synergistic information for space mission encounters by providing data over longer timescales, at different...
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    Euclid: Detecting Solar System objects in Euclid images and classifying them using Kohonen self-organising maps
    The ESA Euclid mission will survey more than 14 000 deg 2 of the sky in visible and near-infrared wavelengths, mapping the extragalactic sky to constrain our...
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    Evolution of a Spiral Jet in the Inner Coma of Comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1)
    We present observations of the evolution of a prominent spiral jet in the inner coma of comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1). The observations, taken with the 82 cm IAC-80...
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    Evolution of the dust coma in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko before the 2009 perihelion
    Context. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is the main target of ESA's Rosetta mission and will be encountered in May 2014. Because the spacecraft will orbit the...
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    Exploring the nature of new main-belt comets with the 10.4 m GTC telescope: (300163) 2006 VW139
    Aims: We aim to study the dust ejected by main-belt comet (MBC) (300163) 2006 VW139 to obtain information on the ejection mechanism and the spectral properties...
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    Hint of an exocomet transit in the CHEOPS light curve of HD 172555
    HD 172555 is a young (~20 Myr) A7V star surrounded by a 10 au wide debris disk suspected to be replenished partly by collisions between large planetesimals...
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    Infrared spectroscopy of the largest known trans-Neptunian object 2001 KX75
    We report complete near-infrared (0.9-2.4 mu m) spectral observations of the largest know trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) 28976 = 2001 KX76 taken in two different...
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    LIGHT CURVE BEHAVIOUR IN C/1995 O1 (HALE-BOPP) - II; Changes in the activity between 13AU and 2.5AU pre-perihelion
    Comet Hale-Bopp is, without doubt, one of the most important objects for cometary science which has ever been observed. The light curve is well-observed from a...
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    Monitoring of asteroids in cometary orbits and activated asteroids through archival images and new observations
    Context. Transitional objects are minor bodies that share some characteristics with asteroids and others with comets. These objects include asteroids in...