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Dust Activity in Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from February 20 to April 20, 2003

Lara, L. M.; Gutiérrez, P. J.; Licandro, J. +1 more

Broadband imaging of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has provided more data on the characterisation of the target of the ESA Rosetta Mission. The comet monitoring between r_h=2.37 and r_h=2.78 AU postperihelion shows a prominent dust coma which extends up to ≈ 25,000 km from the nucleus, and a long dust structure in approximate…