A review of cometary sciences

F. Whipple

DOI:10.1098/rsta.1987.0090

Corpus ID: 119801256

A review of cometary sciences

@article{Whipple1987ARO,
  title={A review of cometary sciences},
  author={F. Whipple},
  journal={Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences},
  year={1987},
  volume={323},
  pages={339 - 347}
}

F. Whipple
Published 1987
Physics
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences

This paper presents an elementary description of comets and their nature. It deals with the contribution from comets to the solid particles that produce the Zodiacal Light and discusses the possibility that some comets in short-period orbits may degenerate into asteroids. The evidence suggests that this may well have happened for the Trojan and other of the outer asteroids but that the near-Earth asteroids and the meteorites are largely not cometary in origin. The last section of the paper… Expand

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