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Meteoroid Streams Associated to Comets 9P/Tempel 1 and 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Jorda, L.; Lamy, P.; Vaubaillon, J.

The meteoroid streams associated to short-period comets 9P/Tempel 1 (the target of the Deep Impact mission)^. and 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (the target of the Rosetta mission) are studied. Their structure is overwhelmingly under the control of Jupiter and repeated relatively close encounters cause a reversal of the direction of the spati…