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Cometary Spectroscopy and Implications to the Chemical Composition, Physical Properties and Origin of Comets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Jürgen Rahe
Jürgen Rahe*
Affiliation:
Remeis-Observatory Bamberg, Astronomical Institute, University Erlangen-Nürnberg

Abstract

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Recent spectroscopic observations of comets, obtained especially in the vacuum ultraviolet spectral region from sounding rockets and satellites, have considerably increased our knowledge of the chemical composition of comets, and the physical and chemical processes occurring in their head and tail. From the UV spectra of comets observed so far, one can perhaps conclude that they have a very similar, homogeneous chemical composition, and possibly also a common origin.

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Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 6 , 1983 , pp. 333 - 345
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983

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