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Cometary nuclei are believed to contain important information on the condition of the solar nebula, but little observational data is available on their interior structure. Our ground-based observations of NASA’s Deep Impact event and the cratering mechanism show that comet 9P/Tempel 1 has a surface layer consisting of small (submicron to micron-sized) carbonaceous grains whose thickness is a few tens of cm.
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Kadono, T. et al. (2009). The Subsurface Structure of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 Projected into the Dust Plume. 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_18
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