Cometary science: Fly-through at Wild 2

Cometary science after Rosetta.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission ended operations on 30 September 2016 having spent over 2 years in close proximity to its target comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Shortly before this, in summer 2016, a discussion meeting was held to examine how the results of the mission could be framed in terms of cometary and solar system science in general. This paper provides a brief history of ...

Cometary Science: The Present and Future

The preceding chapters in this book have provided a comprehensive study of our present knowledge of comets, from the interstellar medium, through formation of the solar system and the present day, to the death of comets. This chapter will make no attempt to summarize the previous chapters. Rather, based on the material in the previous chapters, this chapter will ask about the high-level state o...

Accurate Chemical Composition of Wild 2 Cometary Grains by Sr-xrf

COMETARY GRAINS BY SR-XRF. Alexandre Simionovici, Faustine Grossemy, Laurence Lemelle, Tristan Ferroir, Philippe Gillet, Janet Borg, Zahia Djouadi, Pierre Bleuet, Jean Susini, LGCA, UJF-CNRS, Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble, BP 53, 38041, Grenoble, FRANCE, ([email protected]), Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris XI, 91405 Orsay, FRANCE,LST,...

Cometary Diversity and Cometary Families 1.1 Introduction

Comets are classified from their orbital characteristics into two separate classes: nearly-isotropic, mainly long-period comets and ecliptic, short-period comets. Members from the former class are coming from the Oort cloud. Those of the latter class were first believed to have migrated from the Kuiper belt where they could have been accreted in situ, but recent orbital evolution simulations sh...

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