Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1775236 | Icarus | 2007 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Near-simultaneous R- and J-band photometric measurements of the short-period Comets 2P/Encke and the Deep Impact mission target 9P/Tempel 1 were obtained. The resulting R-J colors are +0.82±0.08mag and +1.46±0.13mag for Encke and Tempel 1, respectively. Tempel 1's color is redder than the solar R-J color index of +0.76. The Tempel 1 observations directly detected the nucleus while the Encke observations likely suffered from coma contamination.
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Authors
Carl W. Hergenrother, Beatrice E.A. Mueller, Humberto Campins, N.H. Samarasinha, Donald W. Jr.,