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20022025
most citedWater Ice and Dust in the Innermost Coma of Comet 103P/Hartley 2

123 citations · 730 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

astro-ph.EP2025

A Large Outburst, Coma Asymmetries, and the Color of Comet 243P/NEAT

Michael S. P. Kelley, Silvia Protopapa, Dennis Bodewits +16

Water ice is a fundamental building material of comets and other bodies in the outer solar system. Yet, the properties of cometary water ice are challenging to study, due to its vo…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 2 cited

Past and Future Comet Missions

C. Snodgrass, L. Feaga, G. H. Jones +2

We review the history of spacecraft encounters with comets, concentrating on those that took place in the recent past, since the publication of the Comets II book. This includes th…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 1 cited

Spatial Distribution of Ultraviolet Emission from Cometary Activity at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

John W. Noonan, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Paul D. Feldman +16

The Alice ultraviolet spectrograph on board the \textit{Rosetta} orbiter provided the first near-nucleus ultraviolet observations of a cometary coma from arrival at comet 67P/Chury…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 8 cited

Analysis of Hybrid Gas-Dust Outbursts Observed at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

John W. Noonan, Giovanna Rinaldi, Paul D. Feldman +14

Cometary outbursts offer a valuable window into the composition of comet nuclei with their forceful ejection of dust and volatiles in explosive events, revealing the interior compo…

astro-ph.EP2020

Narrowband Observations of Comet 46P/Wirtanen During Its Exceptional Apparition of 2018/19 I: Apparent Rotation Period and Outbursts

Tony L. Farnham, Matthew M. Knight, David G. Schleicher +4

We obtained broadband and narrowband images of the hyperactive comet 46P/Wirtanen on 33~nights during its 2018/2019 apparition, when the comet made an historic close approach to th…

astro-ph.IM2020

The science enabled by a dedicated solar system space telescope

Cindy L. Young, Michael H. Wong, Kunio M. Sayanagi +35

The National Academy Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS) made a recommendation to study a large/medium-class dedicated space telescope for planetary science, goi…