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5. Low-Temperature Condensates in Comets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A. H. Delsemme  and
D. Rud

Abstract

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Recent observational data on the volatile fraction of comets are confronted with a model based on the fractional condensation, in the 80-100 °K range, of a higher-temperature equilibrium obtained from a solar mixture, more or less depleted in oxygen and in hydrogen. It is possible to almost duplicate the observational data, only by assuming that the solar ratio of C/0 is at least as large as 0.66 and that the hydrogen was drastically depleted by an unknown process in the primitive solar nebula. Although none of these two assumptions is at variance with present knowledge, the latter is sufficiently exotic to propose a simpler explanation, namely that comets could be made of interstellar grains relatively unprocessed by heat.

Type
Part IX. The Primitive Solar Nebula
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 39: Comets, Asteroids, Meteorites: Interrelations, Evolution and Origins , December 1977 , pp. 529 - 535
Copyright
Copyright © A.H. Delsemme 1977

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