A large dust/ice ratio in the nucleus of comet 9P/Tempel 1

Michael Küppers (), Ivano Bertini, Sonia Fornasier, Pedro J. Gutierrez, Stubbe F. Hviid, Laurent Jorda, Horst Uwe Keller, Jörg Knollenberg, Detlef Koschny, Rainer Kramm, Luisa-Maria Lara, Holger Sierks, Nicolas Thomas, Cesare Barbieri, Philippe Lamy, Hans Rickman and Rafael Rodrigo
Additional contact information
Michael Küppers: Max-Planck Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
Ivano Bertini: Università di Padova
Sonia Fornasier: Università di Padova
Pedro J. Gutierrez: Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía-CSIC
Stubbe F. Hviid: Max-Planck Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
Laurent Jorda: Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Traverse du Siphon, Les Trois Lucs BP 8
Horst Uwe Keller: Max-Planck Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
Jörg Knollenberg: DLR Institute for Planetary Research
Detlef Koschny: European Space Agency, ESTEC, SCI-SB
Rainer Kramm: Max-Planck Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
Luisa-Maria Lara: Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía-CSIC
Holger Sierks: Max-Planck Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
Nicolas Thomas: Universität Bern
Cesare Barbieri: Università di Padova
Philippe Lamy: Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Traverse du Siphon, Les Trois Lucs BP 8
Hans Rickman: Uppsala Astronomical Observatory
Rafael Rodrigo: Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía-CSIC

Nature, 2005, vol. 437, issue 7061, 987-990

Abstract: Deep Impact strikes ice NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft met its intended fate on 4 July this year when it collided with Comet Tempel 1 at a relative velocity of over 36,000 km per hour. Telescopes all around the world and beyond it were trained on the event in order to glean information about the internal structure of a comet. Results from OSIRIS cameras on ESA's Rosetta spacecraft provided continuous coverage from 3 days before to 10 days after the impact. The impact created a crater 60 metres in diameter and the nature of the debris points to the comet as an ‘icy dustball’ rather than the more familiar concept of a ‘dirty snowball’.

Date: 2005
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04236 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:437:y:2005:i:7061:d:10.1038_nature04236

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/nature04236

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().