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Dusty Plasma Effects in Comets: Expectations for Rosetta

Mendis, D. A.; Horányi, M.

Despite their small masses, comets have played an extraordinary role in enhancing our understanding of cosmic physics. It was the calculation of comet Halley's orbit and the successful prediction of its return in 1758 that firmly established the correctness of Newton's law of universal gravitation. It was the morphology of the dusty tails of comet…