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Table B.2

Abundances of ammonia in comets from in situ measurements.

UT date (yyyy/mm/dd.d) rh (au) Instrument (%)b Comea Type Name Reference
1986 03 14 0.90 Giotto/NMSc 1.5 + 0.6 HTC 1P/Halley Meier et al. (1994); Rubin et al. (2011)
2015 08 15.0 1.25 (pre-perihelion) Rosetta/MIRO 0.40 + 0.03 JFC 67P/C-G Biver et al. (2019)
2015 11 22.2 1.72 (post-perihelion) Rosetta/MIRO 0.15 + 0.05 JFC 67P/C-G idem

3.2 Rosetta/ROSINA 0.06N summer −0.15S winter JFC 67P/C-G Le Roy et al. (2015)
(pre-perihelion, pre-in-equinox) Rosetta/MIRO 0.2 JFC 67P/C-G Biver et al. (2019)

2.0 – 2.7 Rosetta/ROSINA 0.0378 + 0.0013 JFC 67P/C-G Gasc et al. (2017)
(post-perihelion, pre-out-equinox) Rosetta/MIRO 0.1 JFC 67P/C-G Biver et al. (2019)

3.1–3.5 Rosetta/ROSINA 0.0132 + 0.0013 JFC 67P/C-G Gasc et al. (2017)
(post-perihelion, post-out-equinox)

Bulk (May 2015) Rosetta/ROSINA 0.67 +0.20S summer JFC 67P/C-G Rubin et al. (2019)
(pre-perihelion, post-in-equinox)

2-year integrated Rosetta/ROSINA (0.34 ± 0.11)S −(0.43 ±0.13)N JFC 67P/C-G Läuter et al. (2022)
Rosetta/MIRO 0.34 ± 0.01 JFC 67P/C-G

Notes. (a) HTC = Halley-Type Cornet, JFC = Jupiter-Family Cornet, 67P/C-G = 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. (b) N and S denote the northern and southern hemispheres of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, respectively.(c) NMS = Neutral Mass Spectrometer.

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