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Distributions of 3D tie-points sampling the VL comet tail in the reference frame of the comet trajectory: Xorb − Yorb coincides with the comet orbital plane; Zorb is perpendicular to it. The points tends to distribute along a curve lying in the orbital plane (left panel), while in the Zorb direction, the points are dispersed at most within ±0.04 R⊙.
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