New Approach to Study Non-Gravitational Motion of a Comet Normal to the Orbital Plane
[摘要] Anedge-onviewofthe22P/Kopffimageshowedthatthenucleuswasnotonthelocusofthemaximumbrightnessofitsdustcloud,whichislikelytobeaneck-linestructurecomposedoflargedustparticlesejected409daysbeforetheobservation.Assumingthatthenon-gravitationalrecoilforcenormaltotheorbitalplanegeneratedadisplacementofthenucleus,wedemonstrateamodeledimagesimilartothatoftheobservation.Theobtainednormalcomponentofthenon-gravitationalaccelerationisconsistentwiththepredictedvalueextrapolatedbydataobtainedduring1958–1983.
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[效力级别] [学科分类] 天文学(综合)
[关键词] "comets: individual (22P/Kopff)";"meteorites;meteors;meteoroids" [时效性]
