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We discuss the detection and evolution of a complex series of transient and quasi-static solar wind structures in the days following the well-known comet 2P / Encke tail disconnection event in April 2007. The evolution of transient solar…

This paper presents the past evolution of the orbital elements of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, target of the Rosetta spacecraft. The gravitational orbit of the comet is affected by the sublimation of ice from the nucleus that triggers…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-01 Lucie Maquet

We present the results of imaging photometric and long-slit spectroscopic observations of comet 2P/Encke performed at the heliocentric distance 0.56 au, geocentric distance 0.65 au, and phase angle 109.2 deg on November 4, 2013 and at 1.05…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Vera Rosenbush , Oleksandra Ivanova , Valerii Kleshchonok , Nikolai Kiselev , Viktor Afanasiev , Olena Shubina , Dmitry Petrov

We present study of the complex event consisting of several solar wind transients detected by Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) on 4 -- 7 August 2011, that caused a geomagnetic storm with Dst$=-$110 nT. The supposed coronal sources --…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 D. Rodkin , F. Goryaev , P. Pagano , G. Gibb , V. Slemzin , Yu. Shugay , I. Veselovsky , D. H. Mackay

On October 8th, 2011 the Earth crossed the dust trails left by comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner during its XIX and XX century perihelion approaches with the comet being close to perihelion. The geometric circumstances of that encounter were thus…

The assumption of the capture by the Solar System of the electrically charged Planckian DM objects (daemons) from the galactic disk is confirmed not only by the St.Petersburg (SPb) experiments detecting particles with V<30 km/s. Here the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-12-16 Edward M. Drobyshevski , Mikhail E. Drobyshevski

We present observations of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during its 2021/22 apparition, aiming to investigate its dust and gas environment and compare the results with those obtained in 2015/16 using the same telescope. Quasi-simultaneous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 V. Rosenbush , V. Kleshchonok , O. Ivanova , I. Luk'yanyk , C. Snodgrass , D. Gardener , L. Kolokolova , J. Markkanen , E. Shablovinskaya

We obtained broadband and narrowband images of the hyperactive comet 46P/Wirtanen on 33~nights during its 2018/2019 apparition, when the comet made an historic close approach to the Earth. With our extensive coverage, we investigated the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 Tony L. Farnham , Matthew M. Knight , David G. Schleicher , Lori M. Feaga , Dennis Bodewits , Brian A. Skiff , Josephine Schindler

We present results for Chandra observations of comets, 17P/Holmes (17P) and 8P/Tuttle (8P). 17P was observed for 30 ksec right after its major outburst, on 31 Oct 2007 (10:07 UT) and comet 8P/Tuttle was observed in 2008 January for 47 ksec.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. J. Christian , D. Bodewits , C. M. Lisse , K. Dennerl , S. J. Wolk , H. Hsieh , T. H. Zurbuchen , L. Zhao

The properties of the smallest subunits of cometary dust contain information on their origin and clues to the formation of planetesimals and planets. Compared to IDPs or particles collected during the Stardust mission, dust collected in the…

In situ research on cometary chemistry began when measurements from the Giotto mission at comet 1P/Halley revealed the presence of complex organics in the coma. New telescopes and space missions have provided detailed remote and in situ…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Kathrin Altwegg , Hans Balsiger , Stephen A. Fuselier

On 4 July 2005 at 5:52 UT the Deep Impact mission successfully completed its goal to hit the nucleus of 9P/Tempel 1 with an impactor, forming a crater on the nucleus and ejecting material into the coma of the comet. NASA's Submillimeter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Bensch , G. J. Melnick , D. A. Neufeld , M. Harwit , R. L. Snell , B. M. Patten , V. Tolls

The release of volatiles from comets is usually from direct sublimation of ices on the nucleus, but for very or hyper-active comets other sources have to be considered to account for the total production rates. In this work, we present new…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-13 Theodore Kareta , John W. Noonan , Walter M. Harris , Alessondra Springmann

We calculate the momentum flux and pressure of ions measured by the Ion Composition Analyzer (ICA) on the Rosetta mission at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The total momentum flux stays roughly constant over the mission, but the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Hayley Williamson , Hans Nilsson , Gabriella Stenberg Wieser , A. I. Eriksson , Ingo Richter , Charlotte Goetz

Looking at the Mars-solar wind interaction on a larger spatial scale than the near Mars region, the planet can be seen as an ion source interacting with the solar wind, in many ways like a comet, but with a smaller ion source region. Here…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Mats Holmstrom , Xiao-Dong Wang

Astrometric and photometric observations of the comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 were performed at the Zeiss-1000 telescope of the International Astronomical Observatory Sanglokh (IAOS) of the Institute of Astrophysics, Academy of Sciences…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-15 G. I. Kokhirova , O. V. Ivanova , F. Dzh. Rakhmatullaeva , A. M. Buriev , U. Kh. Khamroev

3I/ATLAS is only the second confirmed cometary object known to enter the Solar System from interstellar space. Cosmogonic considerations suggest that this body may possess relatively high tensile strength and a substantial metal fraction.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez , Maria Gritsevich , Jürgen Blum

Since Parker Solar Probe's (Parker's) first perihelion pass at the Sun, large amplitude Alfv\'en waves grouped in patches have been observed near the Sun throughout the mission. Several formation processes for these magnetic switchback…

In 1985 Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner was the first comet visited by a spacecraft, the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) satellite, several months before the armada of Halley spacecraft had their encounters in 1986. ICE was originally the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Michael R. Combi , Terhi Mäkinen , Jean-Loup. Bertaux , Eric Quémerais , Stephane Ferron , Ruben Coronel

We study the origin of 3He-rich solar energetic particles (<1 MeV/nucleon) that are observed consecutively on STEREO-B, ACE, and STEREO-A spacecraft when they are separated in heliolongitude by more than 90{\deg}. The 3He-rich period on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-03 R. Bucik , D. E. Innes , U. Mall , A. Korth , G. M. Mason , R. Gomez-Herrero
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