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The Deep Impact encounter with the nucleus of 9P/Tempel ejected small grains (a ⪅ 10 μm

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Kelley, M.S., Reach, W.T., Woodward, C.E. (2009). A Search for Deep Impact’s Large Particle Ejecta. In: Käufl, H., Sterken, C. (eds) Deep Impact as a World Observatory Event: Synergies in Space, Time, and Wavelength. Eso Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76959-0_15

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