Searching for main-belt comets using the
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Alyssa M. Gilbert; Paul A. Wiegert
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey, specifically the Very Wide segment of data, is used to search for possible main-belt comets. In the first data set, 952 separate objects with asteroidal orbits within the main-belt are examined using a three-level technique. First, the full-width-hal