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In Situ Dust Measurements From within the Coma of 1P/Halley: First-Order Approximation with a Dust Dynamical Model

Fulle, M.; Levasseur-Regourd, A. C.; McBride, N. +1 more

In situ measurements of the light locally scattered by cometary dust, as well as the local dust spatial density, are only available for one comet, 1P/Halley. These data were returned from the Optical Probe Experiment (OPE) and the Dust Impact Detection System (DID) aboard the European Space Agency spacecraft Giotto. Due to a detailed calibration o…