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A Double Nucleus of Comet Evans-Drinkwater (C/1996 J1)

A Double Nucleus of Comet Evans-Drinkwater (C/1996 J1)

Sekanina, Z.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/20439
Date: 1998-05
Citation: Astronomy and Astrophysics (Letters)
USA

Abstract:

The nucleus of comet C/1996 J1, whose duplicity was first detected in early May 1997, ~4 months after perihelion, is found to have split nontidally ~70 days before perihelion at 1.65 AU from the Sun.

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