Comet nucleus size distributions from HST and Keck telescopes
By K. Meech, O. Hainaut, B. Marsden. 2004
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- Origin and Evolution of Short-period Comets (2017, background): “Whatever is the cause, a dramatically shorter physical lifetime of small comets could explain the relative paucity of ECs with D < 1 km (e.g., Meech et al. 2004, Snodgrass et al. 2011, Fernández et al. 2013).”
- The primordial nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2015, background): “Others obtained shallower slopes, for example αc = 1.6 ± 0.1 (Lowry et al. 2003), αc = 1.45±0.05 at D = 2–20 km and αc = 1.91±0.06 at D = 4– 10 km (Meech et al. 2004), αc = 1.9 ± 0.3 (Lamy et al. 2004), αc = 1.92 ± 0.2 (Snodgrass et al. 2011), and αc = 1.92 ± 0.23 by Y. Fernández et al. (2013).”
- Oort cloud and Scattered Disc formation during a late dynamical instability in the Solar System (2012, background): “For JFCs with diameters between approximately 2 km and 10 km the slope c 2 (e.g. Lowry and Weissman, 2003; Meech et al., 2004; Snodgrass et al., 2011), corresponding to a = 0.4.”
- VELOCITY-DEPENDENT CATASTROPHIC DISRUPTION CRITERIA FOR PLANETESIMALS (2009, background): “Our result that km-scale aggregates are particularly susceptible to disruption is supported by the observed deficit of small bodies ( 1 km) in the outer solar system (Bierhaus et al. 2005; Meech et al. 2004).”
- The sizes, shapes, albedos, and colors of cometary nuclei (2004, background): “It incorporates recent results from Meech et al. (2004), except for the nuclei of 22P/Kopff, 46P/Wirtanen, 87P/Bus, and P/1993 K2 (Helin-Lawrence), which were active at the time of observations, from the compilation of Hainaut and Delsanti (2002), and from Lowry and Weissman (2003).”
- PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM NEOWISE: AN ENHANCEMENT TO THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER FOR SOLAR SYSTEM SCIENCE (2011, background): “The HFCs and LPCs, believed to originate in the Oort cloud, should have retained their original size distribution (Stern & Weissman 2001) and should be larger (Meech et al. 2004).”