DocumentCode
1505908
Title
Plasma tails: Comets Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake
Author
Wurden, G.A. ; Wurden, A.J. ; Gladstone, I.M., Jr.
Author_Institution
Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA
Volume
27
Issue
1
fYear
1999
fDate
2/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
142
Lastpage
143
Abstract
Comet Hale-Bopp was one of the largest comets ever recorded, and it exhibited both a massive dust tail and a plasma tail, which developed as it approached the Sun over the course of six months in 1996-1997. Because the dust responds to gravity and light pressure, but plasmas also respond to the local solar wind (Coulomb collisions and magnetic fields), there is typically an angular separation between the two tails
Keywords
astrophysical plasma; comets; interplanetary matter; solar wind; Comet Hale-Bopp; Comet Hyakutak; Coulomb collisions; Sun; angular separation; dust tail; gravity; light pressure; magnetic fields; plasma tail; Dusty plasma; Earth; Gold; Gravity; Laboratories; Lenses; Magnetic fields; Magnetic heads; Sun; Tail;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0093-3813
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/27.763094
Filename
763094
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