Putting the CO in coma

Jacques Crovisier ()
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Jacques Crovisier: Observatoire de Paris

Nature, 1999, vol. 399, issue 6737, 640-641

Abstract: When comet Hale-Bopp is twice as far from the Sun as is the Earth it releases water and carbon monoxide (CO). As it passed very close to the Sun last year, even more CO was produced in the cometary atmosphere known as the coma. The fact that this extra source of CO switched on and off at a certain distance from the Sun suggests that a thermal production process may be involved.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/21326

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