Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 Dust Size and Vel
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Joseph M. Hahn; Terrence W. Rettig
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Pre-impact observations of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (S-L9) obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope are examined, and a model of an active, dust-producing comet is fitted to images of fragments G, H, K, and L. The model assumes steady isotropic dust emission from each fragment's sunlit hemisphere. Bes