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A Review of Comets and Nongravitational Forces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

D. K. Yeomans
D. K. Yeomans*
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA E-mail DKY@NAIF.SPAN

Abstract

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A review is given on the recent advances in understanding the nature of the nongravitational forces that affect the motions of nearly all active comets.

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Dynamics
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 160: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1993 , 1994 , pp. 241 - 254
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Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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