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Dust in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Lara, L. M.; López-Moreno, J. J.; Moreno, F. +2 more

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been designated the new target for the ESA Rosetta mission, launched successfully on 2004 March 2. We have analyzed an image set taken in 2003 March, in which the comet appeared to have a conspicuous dust antitail. We employed a Monte Carlo code, similar to that by Fulle (1989), by which we have computed the dus…