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Diaphragm size |
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Polar. | Overheat/silicate | Ref.4 |
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or box (km2) | (%) | (%) | class | features at 10 ![]() |
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C/1975 N1 (Kobayashi- | 95.4 |
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9.1 | 25.9 | low | 1.08/no | 1, 2 |
Berger-Milon) | |||||||
23P/Brorsen-Metcalf | 86.0 |
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15.3 | 25.2 | low | 1.05/no | 1, 3 |
C/1982 M1 (Austin) | 94.1 |
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9.1 | 25.9 | low | ?/? | 4, - |
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22.3 | 25.8 | high | 5, - | ||
C/1983 H1 (Iras- | 92.5 |
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32 | 25.8 | high | 1.07/very weak | 6, 7 |
Araki-Alcock) | |||||||
27P/Crommelin | 73.7 |
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11.3 | 22.2 | low | <1.04/no | 1, 8 |
C/1989 X1 (Austin) | 89.3 |
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18.0 | 25.6 | low | 1.07-1.20/weak | 9, 10 |
C/1989 Q1 (Okazaki- | 89.8 |
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16.0 | 25.6 | low | 1.20/no | 11, 7 |
Levy-Ludenko) | |||||||
D/1996 Q1 (Tabur) | 83.3 | 990![]() |
25.4 | 24.7 | high | ![]() |
12, 13 |
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15.9 | low | |||||
2P/Encke | 94.6 |
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25.9 | high | 1.03/weak | 14, 15 |
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7.7 | low | |||||
21P/Giacobini-Zinner | 62.3 | 35 300 ![]() |
15.7 | 17.6 | high | weak/weak | 16, 17 |
1) Observed phase angle. 2) Observed degree of polarization. 3) Polarization of a typical dusty comet at phase angle ![]() 4) References: (1) Chernova et al. (1993); (2) Ney (1982); (3) Lynch et al. (1992); (4) Rosenbush et al. (1997); (5) Myers & Nordsiek (1984); (6) Kikuchi (1983); (7) Hanner et al. (1994); (8) Hanner et al. (1985); (9) Kikuchi et al. (1990); (10) Hanner et al. (1993); (11) Rosenbush et al. (1994); (12) Kiselev et al. (2001); (13) Harker et al. (1999); (14) This work; (15) Gehrz et al. (1989); (16) Kiselev et al. (2000); (17) Hanner et al. (1992). |