Outgassing behavior and composition of comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) during its disruption

Science

Volumn 292, Issue 5520, 2001, Pages 1339-1343

  Bockelée Morvan, Dominique ^a   Biver, Nicolas ^a   Moreno, Raphaël ^b   Colom, Pierre ^a   Crovisier, Jacques ^a   Gérard, Éric ^a   Henry, Florence ^a   Lis, Dariusz C ^c   Matthews, Henry ^d   Weaver, H A ^e   Womack, Maria ^f   Festou, Michel C ^g  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b IRAM   (France)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGASSING; HYDROGEN INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIO WAVES; SPACE DEBRIS;

COMETS;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

ACETONE; CARBON MONOXIDE; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; METHANOL; WATER;

COMET;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GAS ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0042375360     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1058512     Document Type: Article

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31. We thank J. Bauer and S. Sheppard for their help during the CSO observations, B. Marsden and D. Green for providing ephemerides, and J.-F. Crifo for fruitful discussions. N. Biver was supported partly by a JCMT fellowship at the University of Hawaii. This work was supported by the Programme National de Planétologie de l'Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). The JCMT is operated by the Joint Astronomy Centre on behalf of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, and the National Research Council of Canada. The Nançay Radio Observatory is operated by the Unité Scientifique de Nançay of the Observatoire de Paris, associated with the CNRS and also gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Conseil Régional of the Région Centre in France. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is operated by Associated Universities, under contract with the NSF. The CSO is supported by the NSF.