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Exploration of the Dust Environment of the Inner Coma of Comet Halley

McDonnell, J. A. M.

Observations of the dust environment of Comet Halley obtained with Giotto, Vega, Susuei, and Sakigake spacecraft are presented and analyzed. Optical/IR, interplanetary space environment, flux and composition, and dynamics and trajectories experiments were conducted. The relation between the dust environment of comets and meteoroid streams is discu…