Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1774506 | Icarus | 2010 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Arecibo radar imagery of Comet 8P/Tuttle reveals a 10-km-long nucleus with a highly bifurcated shape consistent with a contact binary. A separate echo component was also detected from large (>cm-size), slow-moving grains of the type expected to contribute to the Ursid meteor stream.
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Authors
John K. Harmon, Michael C. Nolan, Jon D. Giorgini, Ellen S. Howell,