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The chemical composition of comet nuclei derived from current data on interstellar dust ingredients and comet dust and coma
molecules are shown to be substantially consistent with each other in both refractory and volatile components. When limited
by relative cosmic abundances the water in comet nuclei is constrained to be close to 30% by mass and the refractory to volatile
ratio is close to 1:1. The morphological structure of comet nuclei, as deduced from comet dust infrared continuum and spectral
emission properties, is described by a fluffy (porous) aggregate of tenth micron silicate core-organic refractory mantle particle
on which outer mantles of predominantly H2O ices contain embedded carbonaceous and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) type particles of size in the of 1 - 10nm range.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Michael F. A’Hearn 《Space Science Reviews》2008,138(1-4):237-246
The Deep Impact mission revealed many properties of comet Tempel 1, a typical comet from the Jupiter family in so far as any comet can be considered typical. In addition to the properties revealed by the impact itself, numerous properties were also discovered from observations prior to the impact just because they were the types of observations that had never been made before. The impact showed that the cometary nucleus was very weak at scales from the impactor diameter (~1 m) to the crater diameter (~100 m) and suggested that the strength was low at much smaller scales as well. The impact also showed that the cometary nucleus is extremely porous and that the ice was close to the surface but below a devolatilized layer with thickness of order the impactor diameter. The ambient observations showed a huge range of topography, implying ubiquitous layering on many spatial scales, frequent (more than once a week) natural outbursts, many of them correlated with rotational phase, a nuclear surface with many features that are best interpreted as impact craters, and clear chemical heterogeneity in the outgassing from the nucleus. 相似文献
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Karl-Heinz Glassmeier Hermann Boehnhardt Detlef Koschny Ekkehard Kührt Ingo Richter 《Space Science Reviews》2007,128(1-4):1-21
The ROSETTA Mission, the Planetary Cornerstone Mission in the European Space Agency’s long-term programme Horizon 2000, will
rendezvous in 2014 with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko close to its aphelion and will study the physical and chemical properties
of the nucleus, the evolution of the coma during the comet’s approach to the Sun, and the development of the interaction region
of the solar wind and the comet, for more than one year until it reaches perihelion. In addition to the investigations performed
by the scientific instruments on board the orbiter, the ROSETTA lander PHILAE will be deployed onto the surface of the nucleus.
On its way to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ROSETTA will fly by and study the two asteroids 2867 Steins and 21 Lutetia. 相似文献
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K. J. Seidensticker D. Möhlmann I. Apathy W. Schmidt K. Thiel W. Arnold H.-H. Fischer M. Kretschmer D. Madlener A. Péter R. Trautner S. Schieke 《Space Science Reviews》2007,128(1-4):301-337
SESAME is an instrument complex built in international co-operation and carried by the Rosetta lander Philae intended to land
on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. The main goals of this instrument suite are to measure mechanical and electrical
properties of the cometary surface and the shallow subsurface as well as of the particles emitted from the cometary surface.
Most of the sensors are mounted within the six soles of the landing gear feet in order to provide good contact with or proximity
to the cometary surface. The measuring principles, instrument designs, technical layout, operational concepts and the results
from the first in-flight measurements are described. We conclude with comments on the consequences of the last minute change
of the target comet and how to improve and to preserve the knowledge during the long-duration Rosetta mission. 相似文献
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Eberhard Grün 《Space Science Reviews》1991,56(1-2):105-108
In situ observations of comet Halley yielded information on the nucleus and its environment. These measurements are related to properties of and processes at the nucleus by theoretical modelling and by simulation experiments in the laboratory. The objective of the KOSI (Kometensimulation) experiments is to study in detail processes which occur near the surface of ice-dust mixtures under irradiation by light, like heat transport into the sample, chemical fractionation of sample material, emission of gases, and others. The KOSI experiments are carried out at the large space simulation chamber in Köln. By providing an in-depth understanding of potential cometary processes the results from the KOSI experiments are relevant to any comet nucleus sample return mission. 相似文献
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Tilman Spohn Karsten Seiferlin Axel Hagermann Jörg Knollenberg Andrew J. Ball Marek Banaszkiewicz Johannes Benkhoff Stanislaw Gadomski Wojciech Gregorczyk Jerzy Grygorczuk Marek Hlond Günter Kargl Ekkehard Kührt Norbert Kömle Jacek Krasowski Wojciech Marczewski John C. Zarnecki 《Space Science Reviews》2007,128(1-4):339-362
MUPUS, the multi purpose sensor package onboard the Rosetta lander Philae, will measure the energy balance and the physical parameters in the near-surface layers – up to about 30 cm depth- of the
nucleus of Rosetta’s target comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Moreover it will monitor changes in these parameters over time as
the comet approaches the sun. Among the parameters studied are the density, the porosity, cohesion, the thermal diffusivity
and conductivity, and temperature. The data should increase our knowledge of how comets work, and how the coma gases form.
The data may also be used to constrain the microstructure of the nucleus material. Changes with time of physical properties
will reveal timescales and possibly the nature of processes that modify the material close to the surface. Thereby, the data
will indicate how pristine cometary matter sampled and analysed by other experiments on Philae really is. 相似文献
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Deep Impact Mission Design 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
William H. Blume 《Space Science Reviews》2005,117(1-2):23-42
The Deep Impact mission is designed to provide the first opportunity to probe below the surface of a comet nucleus by a high-speed
impact. This requires finding a suitable comet with launch and encounter conditions that allow a meaningful scientific experiment.
The overall design requires the consideration of many factors ranging from environmental characteristics of the comet (nucleus
size, dust levels, etc.), to launch dates fitting within the NASA Discovery program opportunities, to launch vehicle capability
for a large impactor, to the observational conditions for the two approaching spacecraft and for telescopes on Earth. 相似文献
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K. C. Hansen T. Bagdonat U. Motschmann C. Alexander M. R. Combi T. E. Cravens T. I. Gombosi Y.-D. Jia I. P. Robertson 《Space Science Reviews》2007,128(1-4):133-166
The plasma environment of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the Rosetta mission target comet, is explored over a range of heliocentric
distances throughout the mission: 3.25 AU (Rosetta instruments on), 2.7 AU (Lander down), 2.0 AU, and 1.3 AU (perihelion).
Because of the large range of gas production rates, we have used both a fluid-based magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model as well
as a semi-kinetic hybrid particle model to study the plasma distribution. We describe the variation in plasma environs over
the mission as well as the differences between the two modeling approaches under different conditions. In addition, we present
results from a field aligned, two-stream transport electron model of the suprathermal electron flux when the comet is near
perihelion. 相似文献
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Kathrin Altwegg 《Space Science Reviews》2008,138(1-4):291-300
The ISSI workshop on “Origin and evolution of comet nuclei” had the goal to put together recent scientific findings concerning the “life” of a comet from the formation of the material in a dark molecular cloud to the accretion in the early solar system, from cometesimals to comet nuclei which were shaped and altered by cosmic rays, by radioisotopic heating, to their sublimation in the inner solar system. Astronomers, space researchers, modelers and laboratory experimentalists tried to draw the coherent picture. However, it became clear that there are still a lot of open questions, findings which seem to contradict each other, missing laboratory data, and experimental biases not taken into account. The Rosetta mission will make a big step forward in cometary science, but it will almost certainly not be able to resolve all questions. The main outcome of this workshop was the fact that comets are much more diverse than commonly thought and they are not only different from comet to comet but may consist of morphologically and chemically inhomogeneous cometesimals which may even have different places of origin. 相似文献
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Dust is an important constituent of cometary emission; its analysis is one of the major objectives of ESA’s Rosetta mission
to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (C–G). Several instruments aboard Rosetta are dedicated to studying various aspects of
dust in the cometary coma, all of which require a certain level of exposure to dust to achieve their goals. At the same time,
impacts of dust particles can constitute a hazard to the spacecraft. To conciliate the demands of dust collection instruments
and spacecraft safety, it is desirable to assess the dust environment in the coma even before the arrival of Rosetta. We describe
the present status of modelling the dust coma of 67P/C–G and predict the speed and flux of dust in the coma, the dust fluence
on a spacecraft along sample trajectories, and the radiation environment in the coma. The model will need to be refined when
more details of the coma are revealed by observations. An overview of astronomical observations of 67P/C–G is given, because
model parameters are derived from this data if possible. For quantities not yet measured for 67P/C–G, we use values obtained
for other comets, e.g. concerning the optical and compositional properties of the dust grains. One of the most important and
most controversial parameters is the dust mass distribution. We summarise the mass distribution functions derived from the
in-situ measurements at comet 1P/Halley in 1986. For 67P/C–G, constraining the mass distribution is currently only possible
by the analysis of astronomical images. We find that both the dust mass distribution and the time dependence of the dust production
rate of 67P/C–G are those of a fairly typical comet. 相似文献
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L. A. Mcfadden M. K. Rountree-Brown E. M. Warner S. A. M Claughlin J. M. Behne J. D. Ristvey S. Baird-Wilkerson D. K. Duncan S. D. Gillam G. H. Walker K. J. Meech 《Space Science Reviews》2005,117(1-2):373-396
The Deep Impact mission’s Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) program brings the principles of physics relating to the properties
of matter, motions and forces and transfer of energy to school-aged and public audiences. Materials and information on the
project web site convey the excitement of the mission, the principles of the process of scientific inquiry and science in
a personal and social perspective. Members of the E/PO team and project scientists and engineers, share their experiences
in public presentations and via interviews on the web. Programs and opportunities to observe the comet before, during and
after impact contribute scientific data to the mission and engage audiences in the mission, which is truly an experiment. 相似文献
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Robert M. Walker 《Space Science Reviews》1991,56(1-2):213-226
It is first argued that, when comet sampled are returned, they should be distributed to individual laboratories for analysis in the way that lunar samples, meteorites, and interplanetary dust particles have been studied in the past. The intellectual ferment engendered by recent discoveries should ensure the viability of groups working in extraterrestrial material research into the indefinite future. Many of the recent discoveries have resulted from application of increasingly sophisticated methods of microanalysis. #the interplay between technological developments and scientific work is underscored and it is argued that increased technical support for extraterrestrial material research should lead to instrumental developments that could have widespread practical applications.A brief review of certain potentially relevant technical developments in other fields is given and it is suggested that microanalytic measurements of extraterrestrial samples at the atom-counting limit appear promising for the future. The special problems raised by the necessity for cryogenic examination of comet samples are briefly discussed and it is concluded that the lack of expertise in this area is a current weakness in the ability of the extraterrestrial material community to handle comet samples. Computer tomography scan images of a dirty snowball are presented to illustrate the importance of developing new methods for comet sample analysis. 相似文献
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G. Klingelhöfer J. Brückner C. D’uston R. Gellert R. Rieder 《Space Science Reviews》2007,128(1-4):383-396
The Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) is a small instrument to determine the elemental composition of a given sample.
For the ESA Rosetta mission, the periodical comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was selected as the target comet, where the lander
PHILAE (after landing) will carry out in-situ observations. One of the instruments onboard is the APXS to make measurements
on the landing site. The APXS science goal is to provide basic compositional data of the comet surface. As comets consist
of a mixture of ice and dust, the dust component can be characterized and compared with known meteoritic compositions. Various
element ratios can be used to evaluate whether chemical fractionations occurred in cometary material by comparing them with
known chondritic material. To enable observations of the local environment, APXS measurements of several spots on the surface
and one spot as function of temperature can be made. Repetitive measurements as function of heliocentric distance can elucidate
thermal processes at work. By measuring samples that were obtained by drilling subsurface material can be analyzed. The accumulated
APXS data can be used to shed light on state, evolution, and origin of 67P/Churyumov- Gerasimenko. 相似文献
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L. Colangeli J. J. Lopez-Moreno P. Palumbo J. Rodriguez M. Cosi V. Della Corte F. Esposito M. Fulle M. Herranz J. M. Jeronimo A. Lopez-Jimenez E. Mazzotta Epifani R. Morales F. Moreno E. Palomba A. Rotundi 《Space Science Reviews》2007,128(1-4):803-821
The Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator (GIADA) onboard the ROSETTA mission to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is devoted
to study the cometary dust environment. Thanks to the rendezvous configuration of the mission, GIADA will be plunged in the
dust environment of the coma and will be able to explore dust flux evolution and grain dynamic properties with position and
time. This will represent a unique opportunity to perform measurements on key parameters that no ground-based observation
or fly-by mission is able to obtain and that no tail or coma model elaborated so far has been able to properly simulate. The
coma and nucleus properties shall be, then, clarified with consequent improvement of models describing inner and outer coma
evolution, but also of models about nucleus emission during different phases of its evolution. GIADA shall be capable to measure
mass/size of single particles larger than about 15 μm together with momentum in the range 6.5 × 10−10 ÷ 4.0 × 10−4 kg m s−1 for velocities up to about 300 m s−1. For micron/submicron particles the cumulative mass shall be detected with sensitivity 10−10 g. These performances are suitable to provide a statistically relevant set of data about dust physical and dynamic properties
in the dust environment expected for the target comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Pre-flight measurements and post-launch checkouts
demonstrate that GIADA is behaving as expected according to the design specifications.
The International GIADA Consortium (I, E, UK, F, D, USA). 相似文献
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K. J. Meech M. F. A’Hearn Y. R. Fernández C. M. Lisse H. A. Weaver N. Biver L. M. Woodney 《Space Science Reviews》2005,117(1-2):297-334
Prior to the selection of the comet 9P/Tempel 1 as the Deep Impact mission target, the comet was not well observed. From 1999 through the present there has been an intensive world-wide observing
campaign designed to obtain mission critical information about the target nucleus, including the nucleus size, albedo, rotation
rate, rotation state, phase function, and the development of the dust and gas coma. The specific observing schemes used to
obtain this information and the resources needed are presented here. The Deep Impact mission is unique in that part of the mission observations will rely on an Earth-based (ground and orbital) suite of complementary
observations of the comet just prior to impact and in the weeks following. While the impact should result in new cometary
activity, the actual physical outcome is uncertain, and the Earth-based observations must allow for a wide range of post-impact
phenomena. A world-wide coordinated effort for these observations is described. 相似文献
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S. A. Stern D. C. Slater J. Scherrer J. Stone M. Versteeg M. F. A’hearn J. L. Bertaux P. D. Feldman M. C. Festou Joel Wm. Parker O. H. W. Siegmund 《Space Science Reviews》2007,128(1-4):507-527
We describe the design, performance and scientific objectives of the NASA-funded ALICE instrument aboard the ESA Rosetta asteroid flyby/comet rendezvous mission. ALICE is a lightweight, low-power, and low-cost imaging spectrograph optimized for cometary far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectroscopy. It will be the first UV spectrograph to study a comet at close range. It is designed to obtain spatially-resolved spectra of Rosetta mission targets in the 700–2050 Å spectral band with a spectral resolution between 8 Å and 12 Å for extended sources that fill its ~0.05^ × 6.0^ field-of-view. ALICE employs an off-axis telescope feeding a 0.15-m normal incidence Rowland circle spectrograph with a toroidal concave holographic reflection grating. The microchannel plate detector utilizes dual solar-blind opaque photocathodes (KBr and CsI) and employs a two-dimensional delay-line readout array. The instrument is controlled by an internal microprocessor. During the prime Rosetta mission, ALICE will characterize comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's coma, its nucleus, and nucleus/coma coupling; during cruise to the comet, ALICE will make observations of the mission's two asteroid flyby targets and of Mars, its moons, and of Earth's moon. ALICE has already successfully completed the in-flight commissioning phase and is operating well in flight. It has been characterized in flight with stellar flux calibrations, observations of the Moon during the first Earth fly-by, and observations of comet C/2002 T7 (LINEAR) in 2004 and comet 9P/Tempel 1 during the 2005 Deep Impact comet-collision observing campaign. 相似文献
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The gas flux from a volatile icy-dust mixture is computed using a comet nucleus thermal model in order to study the evolution
of CO outgassing during several apparitions from long-period Comet Hale-Bopp and short-period Comet Wirtanen. The comet model
assumes a spherical, porous body containing a dust component, one major ice component (H2O), and one minor ice component of higher volatility (CO). The initial chemical composition is assumed to be homogeneous.
The following processes are taken into account: heat and gas diffusion inside the rotating nucleus; release of outward diffusing
gas from the comet nucleus; chemical differentiation by sublimation of volatile ices in the surface layers and recondensation
of gas in deeper, cooler layers. A 2-D time dependent solution is obtained through the dependence of the boundary conditions
on the local solar illumination as the nucleus rotates. The model for Comet Hale-Bopp was compared with observational measurements
(Biver et al., 1999). The best agreement was obtained for a model with amorphous water ice and CO, assuming that a part of the latter is
trapped by the water ice, another part is condensed as an independent ice phase. The model confirms that sublimation of CO
ice at large heliocentric distance produces a gradual increase in the comet's activity as it approaches the Sun. Crystallization
of amorphous water ice begins at 7 AU from the Sun, but no outbursts were found. Seasonal effects and thermal inertia of the
nucleus material lead to larger CO outgassing rates as the comet recedes from the Sun. In the second part of this work the
model was run with the orbital parameters of Comet Wirtanen. Unlike Comet Hale-Bopp, the predicted CO outgassing from Comet
Wirtanen is almost constant throughout its orbit. Such behavior can be explained by a thermally evolved and chemically differentiated
comet nucleus.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Peter H. Schultz Carolyn M. Ernst Jennifer L. B. Anderson 《Space Science Reviews》2005,117(1-2):207-239
The NASA Discovery Deep Impact mission involves a unique experiment designed to excavate pristine materials from below the
surface of comet. In July 2005, the Deep Impact (DI) spacecraft, will release a 360 kg probe that will collide with comet
9P/Tempel 1. This collision will excavate pristine materials from depth and produce a crater whose size and appearance will
provide fundamental insights into the nature and physical properties of the upper 20 to 40 m. Laboratory impact experiments
performed at the NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range at NASA Ames Research Center were designed to assess the range of possible outcomes
for a wide range of target types and impact angles. Although all experiments were performed under terrestrial gravity, key
scaling relations and processes allow first-order extrapolations to Tempel 1. If gravity-scaling relations apply (weakly bonded
particulate near-surface), the DI impact could create a crater 70 m to 140 m in diameter, depending on the scaling relation
applied. Smaller than expected craters can be attributed either to the effect of strength limiting crater growth or to collapse
of an unstable (deep) transient crater as a result of very high porosity and compressibility. Larger then expected craters
could indicate unusually low density (< 0.3 g cm−3) or backpressures from expanding vapor. Consequently, final crater size or depth may not uniquely establish the physical
nature of the upper 20 m of the comet. But the observed ejecta curtain angles and crater morphology will help resolve this
ambiguity. Moreover, the intensity and decay of the impact “flash” as observed from Earth, space probes, or the accompanying
DI flyby instruments should provide critical data that will further resolve ambiguities. 相似文献