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The Near-Nuclear Coma of Comet Halley in March 1986

Fulle, Marco; Szegö, Karoly; Crifo, Jean-François +1 more

The cameras carried onboard the flyby missions to comet P/Halleyin 1986 imaged the near nuclear jet activity fromseveral spatial directions. The observed, very structured near nucleardust jets were considered at that timeas the result of dust emission from well localized active surface regions(without supporting 3-D model computations, however).Ba…