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Component periods of non-principal-axis rotation and their manifestations in the lightcurves of asteroids and bare cometary nuclei
Nalin H. Samarasinha, Beatrice E. A. Mueller
Lightcurve observations of asteroids and bare cometary nuclei are the most widely used observational tool to derive the rotational parameters. Therefore, an in-depth understanding…
Constraining the Dust Coma Properties of Comet C/Siding Spring (2013 A1) at Large Heliocentric Distances
Jian-Yang Li, Nalin H. Samarasinha, Michael S. P. Kelley +5
The close encounter of Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) with Mars on October 19, 2014 presented an extremely rare opportunity to obtain the first flyby quality data of the nucleus a…
Image Enhancement Techniques for Quantitative Investigations of Morphological Features in Cometary Comae: A Comparative Study
Nalin Samarasinha, Stephen Larson
Many cometary coma features are only a few percent above the ambient coma (i.e., the background) and therefore coma enhancement techniques are needed to discern the morphological s…
Delivery of dust grains from comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) to Mars
Pasquale Tricarico, Nalin H. Samarasinha, Mark V. Sykes +7
Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) will have a close encounter with Mars on October 19, 2014. We model the dynamical evolution of dust grains from the time of their ejection from the…