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Cometary Chemistry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Michael F. A'Hearn
Michael F. A'Hearn*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland

Abstract

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The key problem in cometary chemistry is to observe abundances of species in the coma and to reassemble those species into the species that are present in the nucleus. The limitations are primarily due to poorly constrained models and the lack of uniqueness in reassembling parent species from the fragments when not all of the fragments are observable. These problems will be illustrated with several examples.

Type
Solar System
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 150: Astrochemistry of Cosmic Phenomena , 1992 , pp. 415 - 420
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1992 

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