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Tidal Disruption and the Appearance of Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

Tidal Disruption and the Appearance of Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

Sekanina, Zdenek; Chodas, Paul W.; Yeomans, Donald K.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/36567
Date: 1993

Abstract:

A unified model is presented that quantitatively interprets the observed characteristics of the nuclear train, the two dust trails, and the tail region of P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 in terms of a collisionally modified rotation velocity distribution of the comet's debris.

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