Radar observations of 8P/Tuttle: A contact-binary comet
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Arecibo radar imagery of Comet 8P/Tuttle reveals a 10-km-long nucleus with a highly bifurcated shape consistent with a contact binary. A separate echo component was also detected from large (>cm-size), slow-moving grains of the type expected to contribute to the Ursid meteor stream. ! 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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