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astro-ph.EP2018
Distant Comet C/2017 K2 and the Cohesion Bottleneck
David Jewitt, Jessica Agarwal, Man-To Hui +3
Distant long-period comet C/2017 K2 has been outside the planetary region of the solar system for 3 Myr, negating the possibility that heat retained from the previous perihelion co…
astro-ph.EP2018
Is the Cometary Nucleus Extraction Technique Reliable?
Man-To Hui, Jian-Yang Li
It depends. Our experiment reveals that, given an optically thin coma, generally, the smaller the signal ratio of nucleus to coma, the less reliable is the cometary nucleus-extract…
astro-ph.EP2018
Two Hyperbolic Baldheads in the Solar System: 2017 U7 and 2018 C2
Man-To Hui
We present a study of two newly discovered heliocentric hyperbolic objects -- 2017 U7 and 2018 C2. Both are possibly thermally evolved comets. Observations of the latter in 2018 Ma…