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Snodgrass C, A'Hearn MF, Aceituno F, Afanasiev V, Bagnulo S, Bauer J, Bergond G, Besse S, Biver N, Bodewits D, Boehnhardt H, Bonev BP, Borisov G, Carry B, Casanova V, Cochran A, Conn BC, Davidsson B, Davies JK, de León J, de Mooij E, de Val-Borro M, Delacruz M, DiSanti MA, Drew JE, Duffard R, Edberg NJT, Faggi S, Feaga L, Fitzsimmons A, Fujiwara H, Gibb EL, Gillon M, Green SF, Guijarro A, Guilbert-Lepoutre A, Gutiérrez PJ, Hadamcik E, Hainaut O, Haque S, Hedrosa R, Hines D, Hopp U, Hoyo F, Hutsemékers D, Hyland M, Ivanova O, Jehin E, Jones GH, Keane JV, Kelley MSP, Kiselev N, Kleyna J, Kluge M, Knight MM, Kokotanekova R, Koschny D, Kramer EA, López-Moreno JJ, Lacerda P, Lara LM, Lasue J, Lehto HJ, Levasseur-Regourd AC, Licandro J, Lin ZY, Lister T, Lowry SC, Mainzer A, Manfroid J, Marchant J, McKay AJ, McNeill A, Meech KJ, Micheli M, Mohammed I, Monguió M, Moreno F, Muñoz O, Mumma MJ, Nikolov P, Opitom C, Ortiz JL, Paganini L, Pajuelo M, Pozuelos FJ, Protopapa S, Pursimo T, Rajkumar B, Ramanjooloo Y, Ramos E, Ries C, Riffeser A, Rosenbush V, Rousselot P, Ryan EL, Santos-Sanz P, Schleicher DG, Schmidt M, Schulz R, Sen AK, Somero A, Sota A, Stinson A, Sunshine JM, Thompson A, Tozzi GP, Tubiana C, Villanueva GL, Wang X, Wooden DH, Yagi M, Yang B, Zaprudin B, Zegmott TJ. The 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko observation campaign in support of the Rosetta mission. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci 2017; 375:rsta.2016.0249. [PMID: 28554971 PMCID: PMC5454223 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/21/2016] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
Abstract
We present a summary of the campaign of remote observations that supported the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission. Telescopes across the globe (and in space) followed comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from before Rosetta's arrival until nearly the end of the mission in September 2016. These provided essential data for mission planning, large-scale context information for the coma and tails beyond the spacecraft and a way to directly compare 67P with other comets. The observations revealed 67P to be a relatively 'well-behaved' comet, typical of Jupiter family comets and with activity patterns that repeat from orbit to orbit. Comparison between this large collection of telescopic observations and the in situ results from Rosetta will allow us to better understand comet coma chemistry and structure. This work is just beginning as the mission ends-in this paper, we present a summary of the ground-based observations and early results, and point to many questions that will be addressed in future studies.This article is part of the themed issue 'Cometary science after Rosetta'.
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- C Snodgrass
- School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2421, USA
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
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- Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Arkhyz, Russia
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- Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, UK
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 183-401, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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- Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán, Calar Alto, CSIC-MPG, Sierra de los Filabres-04550 Gérgal (Almería), Spain
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- ESA/ESAC, PO Box 78, 28691 Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain
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- LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Diderot, 5 Place J. Janssen, 92195 Meudon Pricipal Cedex, France
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2421, USA
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA
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- Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, UK
- Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory, 72 Tsarigradsko Chaussée Boulevard, BG-1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Université Côte d'Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Lagrange, France
- IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Lille, France
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
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- University of Texas Austin/McDonald Observatory, 1 University Station, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Gemini Observatory, Recinto AURA, Colina El Pino s/n, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 183-401, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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- The UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), C/Vía Láctea s/n, 38205 La Laguna, Spain
- Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrochemistry Laboratory, Code 693.0, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Department of Physics, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA
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- Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrochemistry Laboratory, Code 693.0, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1, 751 21 Uppsala, Sweden
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- INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50 125 Firenze, Italy
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2421, USA
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- Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
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- Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 650 North A'ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA
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- Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, allée du 6 Août 17, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK
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- Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán, Calar Alto, CSIC-MPG, Sierra de los Filabres-04550 Gérgal (Almería), Spain
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- Institut UTINAM, UMR 6213 CNRS-Université de Franche Comté, Besançon, France
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
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- CNRS/INSU; UPMC (Sorbonne Univ.); UVSQ (UPSay); LATMOS-IPSL, 11 Bld d'Alembert, 78280 Guyancourt, France
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- European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad, West Indies
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- Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán, Calar Alto, CSIC-MPG, Sierra de los Filabres-04550 Gérgal (Almería), Spain
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- Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- University Observatory, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Scheiner Strasse 1, 81679 Munich, Germany
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- Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán, Calar Alto, CSIC-MPG, Sierra de los Filabres-04550 Gérgal (Almería), Spain
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- Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, allée du 6 Août 17, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
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- Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 05960 Tatranská Lomnica, Slovak Republic
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- Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, allée du 6 Août 17, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking RH5 6NT, UK
- The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2421, USA
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- Main Astronomical Observatory of National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, UKraine
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- Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- University Observatory, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Scheiner Strasse 1, 81679 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2421, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK
- Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Research and Scientific Support Department, European Space Agency, 2201 Noordwijk, The Netherlands
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 183-401, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
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- Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
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- Université de Toulouse, UPS-OMP, IRAP-CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Tuorla Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, Väisäläntie 20, 21500 Piikkiö, Finland
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- UPMC (Sorbonne Univ.); UVSQ (UPSay); CNRS/INSU; LATMOS-IPSL, BC 102, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), C/Vía Láctea s/n, 38205 La Laguna, Spain
- Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, 38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University, No. 300 Zhongda Road, Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, 320 Taiwan
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- Las Cumbres Observatory, 6740 Cortona Drive, Ste. 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, School of Physical Sciences, The University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NH, UK
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, M/S 183-401, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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- Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, allée du 6 Août 17, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
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- University of Texas Austin/McDonald Observatory, 1 University Station, Austin, TX 78712, USA
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrochemistry Laboratory, Code 693.0, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
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- Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- ESA SSA-NEO Coordination Centre, Frascati (RM), Italy
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- Caribbean Institute of Astronomy, Trinidad, West Indies
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- School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrochemistry Laboratory, Code 693.0, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory, 72 Tsarigradsko Chaussée Boulevard, BG-1784 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, allée du 6 Août 17, 4000 Liège, Belgium
- European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrochemistry Laboratory, Code 693.0, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, Univ. Lille, France
- Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Apartado 1761, Lima, Perú
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
- Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, allée du 6 Août 17, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2421, USA
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- Nordic Optical Telescope, Apartado 474, 38700 Santa Cruz de La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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- Department of Physics, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad, West Indies
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- Institute for Astronomy, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán, Calar Alto, CSIC-MPG, Sierra de los Filabres-04550 Gérgal (Almería), Spain
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- University Observatory, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Scheiner Strasse 1, 81679 Munich, Germany
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- University Observatory, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Scheiner Strasse 1, 81679 Munich, Germany
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- Main Astronomical Observatory of National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, UKraine
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- University of Franche-Comté, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers THETA, Institut UTINAM - UMR CNRS 6213, BP 1615, 25010 Besançon Cedex, France
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- SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue Suite 200, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
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- Lowell Observatory, 1400 W. Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA
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- University Observatory, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Scheiner Strasse 1, 81679 Munich, Germany
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- Scientific Support Office, European Space Agency, 2201 AZ Noordwijk, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physics, Assam University, Silchar 788011, India
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- Tuorla Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, Väisäläntie 20, 21500 Piikkiö, Finland
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, 18008 Granada, Spain
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- Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, UK
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2421, USA
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- Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
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- INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50 125 Firenze, Italy
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrochemistry Laboratory, Code 693.0, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Yunnan Observatories, CAS, China, PO Box 110, Kunming 650011, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial Objects, CAS, Kunming 650011, People's Republic of China
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- NASA Ames Research Center, MS 245-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, USA
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- National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
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- European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile
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- Tuorla Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, Väisäläntie 20, 21500 Piikkiö, Finland
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, School of Physical Sciences, The University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NH, UK
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Meech KJ, Ageorges N, A'Hearn MF, Arpigny C, Ates A, Aycock J, Bagnulo S, Bailey J, Barber R, Barrera L, Barrena R, Bauer JM, Belton MJS, Bensch F, Bhattacharya B, Biver N, Blake G, Bockelée-Morvan D, Boehnhardt H, Bonev BP, Bonev T, Buie MW, Burton MG, Butner HM, Cabanac R, Campbell R, Campins H, Capria MT, Carroll T, Chaffee F, Charnley SB, Cleis R, Coates A, Cochran A, Colom P, Conrad A, Coulson IM, Crovisier J, deBuizer J, Dekany R, de Léon J, Dello Russo N, Delsanti A, DiSanti M, Drummond J, Dundon L, Etzel PB, Farnham TL, Feldman P, Fernández YR, Filipovic MD, Fisher S, Fitzsimmons A, Fong D, Fugate R, Fujiwara H, Fujiyoshi T, Furusho R, Fuse T, Gibb E, Groussin O, Gulkis S, Gurwell M, Hadamcik E, Hainaut O, Harker D, Harrington D, Harwit M, Hasegawa S, Hergenrother CW, Hirst P, Hodapp K, Honda M, Howell ES, Hutsemékers D, Iono D, Ip WH, Jackson W, Jehin E, Jiang ZJ, Jones GH, Jones PA, Kadono T, Kamath UW, Käufl HU, Kasuga T, Kawakita H, Kelley MS, Kerber F, Kidger M, Kinoshita D, Knight M, Lara L, Larson SM, Lederer S, Lee CF, Levasseur-Regourd AC, Li JY, Li QS, Licandro J, Lin ZY, Lisse CM, LoCurto G, Lovell AJ, Lowry SC, Lyke J, Lynch D, Ma J, Magee-Sauer K, Maheswar G, Manfroid J, Marco O, Martin P, Melnick G, Miller S, Miyata T, Moriarty-Schieven GH, Moskovitz N, Mueller BEA, Mumma MJ, Muneer S, Neufeld DA, Ootsubo T, Osip D, Pandea SK, Pantin E, Paterno-Mahler R, Patten B, Penprase BE, Peck A, Petitas G, Pinilla-Alonso N, Pittichova J, Pompei E, Prabhu TP, Qi C, Rao R, Rauer H, Reitsema H, Rodgers SD, Rodriguez P, Ruane R, Ruch G, Rujopakarn W, Sahu DK, Sako S, Sakon I, Samarasinha N, Sarkissian JM, Saviane I, Schirmer M, Schultz P, Schulz R, Seitzer P, Sekiguchi T, Selman F, Serra-Ricart M, Sharp R, Snell RL, Snodgrass C, Stallard T, Stecklein G, Sterken C, Stüwe JA, Sugita S, Sumner M, Suntzeff N, Swaters R, Takakuwa S, Takato N, Thomas-Osip J, Thompson E, Tokunaga AT, Tozzi GP, Tran H, Troy M, Trujillo C, Van Cleve J, Vasundhara R, Vazquez R, Vilas F, Villanueva G, von Braun K, Vora P, Wainscoat RJ, Walsh K, Watanabe J, Weaver HA, Weaver W, Weiler M, Weissman PR, Welsh WF, Wilner D, Wolk S, Womack M, Wooden D, Woodney LM, Woodward C, Wu ZY, Wu JH, Yamashita T, Yang B, Yang YB, Yokogawa S, Zook AC, Zauderer A, Zhao X, Zhou X, Zucconi JM. Deep Impact: observations from a worldwide Earth-based campaign. Science 2005; 310:265-9. [PMID: 16150977 DOI: 10.1126/science.1118978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Abstract
On 4 July 2005, many observatories around the world and in space observed the collision of Deep Impact with comet 9P/Tempel 1 or its aftermath. This was an unprecedented coordinated observational campaign. These data show that (i) there was new material after impact that was compositionally different from that seen before impact; (ii) the ratio of dust mass to gas mass in the ejecta was much larger than before impact; (iii) the new activity did not last more than a few days, and by 9 July the comet's behavior was indistinguishable from its pre-impact behavior; and (iv) there were interesting transient phenomena that may be correlated with cratering physics.
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- K J Meech
- Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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