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Unusual Comets (?) as Observed from the Hubble Space Telescope

Weaver, Harold A.; Meech, Karen J.

In separate projects, the Hubble Space Telescope has been used to assess the nature of 3 unusual objects: Chiron, Pholus and P/Shoemaker-Levy 9. This paper will compare these objects and discuss how the unique capabilities of the HST may be used to address the issue of cometary activity in each. Chiron, which has exhibited obvious cometary charact…