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Exploring the nature of new main-belt comets with the 10.4m GTC telescope: (300163) 2006 VW139
J. Licandro, F. Moreno, J. de León +3
We aim to study the dust ejected by main-belt comet (MBC) (300163) 2006 VW139 to obtain information on the ejection mechanism and the spectral properties of the object, to see if t…
An upper limit for the water outgassing rate of the main-belt comet 176P/LINEAR observed with Herschel/HIFI
M. de Val-Borro, L. Rezac, P. Hartogh +15
176P/LINEAR is a member of the new cometary class known as main-belt comets (MBCs). It displayed cometary activity shortly during its 2005 perihelion passage that may be driven by…
Activity of comet 103P/Hartley 2 at the time of the EPOXI mission fly-by
Gian Paolo Tozzi, Elena Mazzotta Epifani, Olivier R. Hainaut +8
Comet 103P/Hartley~2 was observed on Nov. 1-6, 2010, coinciding with the fly-by of the space probe EPOXI. The goal was to connect the large scale phenomena observed from the ground…