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Peaks, notches, and lowlands of comet (67P) Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Burov, A. A.; Guerman, A. D.; Nikonov, V. I.

We study here the local minima, maxima, and saddle points of the augmented potential on the surface of a small celestial body with application to comet (67P) Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The isolines of the augmented potential on this surface are determined, in particular, those corresponding to the saddle points. The results are applied to reveal the c…