As soon as you say say you can't find something
on the internet, you find it. Whipple's original paper
is in the bibliography of this paper which summarizes
the dynamic effects of ourgassing jets on the orbit:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1981A%26A....98...45W
"On the outgassing and jet thrust of snowball comets," by
M. K. Wallis & A. K. MacPherson, in Astronomy and
Astrophysics, vol. 98, no. 1, May 1981, p. 45-49.
A downloadable PDF.
Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Peterson" <[email protected]>
To: "MeteorList" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] EPOXI images of Comet Hartley 2
The outgassing does affect the orbit, but the actual impact is very
small. The actual mass loss is tiny compared with the entire mass of
the nucleus, and the material velocity is low.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Count Deiro" <[email protected]>
To: "Gary Fujihara" <[email protected]>; "MeteorList"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] EPOXI images of Comet Hartley 2
Gary and List,
Thank you for the post, Big Kahuna. Anybody know if all that
outgassing imparts any thrust to the comet... and if so would it
affect its orbit?
Count Deiro
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