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Article Dans Une Revue Nature Année : 1986

Television observations of comet Halley from Vega spacecraft

Jean-Loup Bertaux
G. Tsukanova
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The television system (TVS) aboard the spacecraft Vega 1 and Vega 2 observed comet Halley from 4 to 11 March 1986, and transmitted ∼1,500 images to Earth. The best images of the cometary nucleus were obtained from distances of 8,000–9,000 km. The nucleus is an irregular potato-shaped body, ∼14 × 7.5 × 7.5 km in size, which rotates with a period of 53±3 h. The surface is rather dark; the measured albedo is ∼0.04−0.01+0.02. Active emission of matter was observed on the sunlit side of the nucleus.

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insu-03585248 , version 1 (23-02-2022)

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R. Z. Sagdeev, F. Szabó, G. A. Avanesov, P. Cruvellier, L. Szabó, et al.. Television observations of comet Halley from Vega spacecraft. Nature, 1986, 321 (S6067), pp.262-266. ⟨10.1038/321262a0⟩. ⟨insu-03585248⟩
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