A new meteor shower from comet 46P/Wirtanen expected in December 2023

J Vaubaillon, QZ Ye, A Egal, M Sato… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Comet 46P/Wirtanen is a near-Earth object (NEO) for which no associated meteor
shower has ever been reported. Aims. This study is aimed at improving our understanding of …

A link between the size and composition of comets

JE Robinson, U Malamud, C Opitom… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
All cometary nuclei that formed in the early Solar System incorporated radionuclides and
therefore were subject to internal radiogenic heating. Previous work predicts that if comets …

Unraveling the dust activity of naked-eye comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

B Liu, X Liu - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
A morphological and photometric analysis of the naked-eye long-period comet C/2022 E3
(ZTF) before perihelion is presented in this study. The observation images taken by the …

Physical and Surface Properties of Comet Nuclei from Remote Observations

MM Knight, R Kokotanekova… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We summarize the collective knowledge of physical and surface properties of comet nuclei,
focusing on those that are obtained from remote observations. We now have measurements …

Heating of Small Solar System Body Materials

A Springmann - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Small bodies, including asteroid and comet populations, are leftover material from planet
formation 4.6 Gya. Near-Earth objects, asteroids and comets with closest approaches to the …