[BAA Comets] A New Analysis of Spitzer Observations of Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1

Jeremy Shears bunburyobservatory at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 24 10:47:32 BST 2015


On arXiv today: http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07037
Interesting use of archival observations (2003) and their reanalysis. Considers dust composition: "The dust composition extracted from IRS spectra are very comet-like, containing mainly amorphous ferromagnesian silicates (but with a minority of crystalline silicates as well), water ice, and metal sulfides".
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