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Splitting of Long-period Comet C/2018 F4 (PANSTARRS)

  • Authors: Man-To Hui, 文韜 許, Michael S. P. Kelley, Denise Hung, Tim Lister, Joseph Chatelain, Edward Gomez, Sarah Greenstreet

Man-To Hui et al 2023 The Astronomical Journal 166 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 10.

Critical rotation period vs. cohesive strength and neck-to-lobe area ratio. We assume lobe radii of 100 m and 1 km for the left and right panels, respectively. Given some nucleus size, the general trend is that the larger the cohesive strength and the neck-to-lobe area ratio, the shorter the critical rotation period. For a larger nucleus, the influence of cohesion is less important.

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