Solar-cometary relations and the events of June–August 1972 |
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| Authors: | Freeman D Miller |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, 48104 Ann Arbor, Mich., USA |
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| Abstract: | Evidence for correlations of brightness fluctuations of heads of comets with solar and solar-related phenomena is presented, and the examples of Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann (1) and Giacobini-Zinner in 1959 and 1972 are examined. Brightness behavior of comets and the general level of solar activity in the eleven-year cycle appear to be statistically related. At present the responses of individual comets to solar events are not sufficiently well calibrated to permit using them as reliable interplanetary probes. |
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