Deep Impact and the Origin and Evolution of Cometary Nuclei

@article{AHearn2008DeepIA,
  title={Deep Impact and the Origin and Evolution of Cometary Nuclei},
  author={M. A’Hearn},
  journal={Space Science Reviews},
  year={2008},
  volume={138},
  pages={237-246}
}
The Deep Impact mission revealed many properties of comet Tempel 1, a typical comet from the Jupiter family in so far as any comet can be considered typical. In addition to the properties revealed by the impact itself, numerous properties were also discovered from observations prior to the impact just because they were the types of observations that had never been made before. The impact showed that the cometary nucleus was very weak at scales from the impactor diameter (∼1 m) to the crater… Expand
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