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Split Comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR)

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Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp

Abstract

Comet C/2001 A2 experienced several splitting events during its 2001 perihelion passage. The first break-up event was observed in March 2001 (IAUC 7616). In this paper we report the first results of our extensive imaging and spectroscopic monitoring campaign with ESO telescopes over several weeks before and after the perihelion passage on May 25 2001.

Based on observations carried out at the European Southern Observatory (La Silla and Paranal, Chile), program 267.0–5692.

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  1. European Southern Observatory, Casilla 19001, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile

    Emmanuel Jehin, Hermann Boehnhardt, Xavier Bonfils, Oliver Schütz, Malvina Billeres & Pierre Leisy

  2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

    Zdenek Sekanina

  3. Laboratoire d’Astrophysique, Observatoire de Grenoble, Université J. Fourier, BP 53, F-38041, Grenoble, France

    Jean-Luc Beuzit

  4. Loomberah, Australia

    Gordon J. Garradd

  5. University of California at Berkeley, Center for Adaptive Optics, 601 Campbell Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Franck Marchis

  6. Observatorio Kappa Crucis, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Antonio Más & Daniel Scarpa

  7. Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Ranzani I, 1-40127, Bologna, Italy

    Livia Origlia

  8. Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-41679, München, Germany

    Daniel Thomas

  9. Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi, 50125, Firenze, Italy

    Gian Paolo Tozzi

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  1. European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile

    H. Boehnhardt

  2. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    M. Combi

  3. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain

    M. R. Kidger

  4. European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    R. Schulz

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Jehin, E. et al. (2002). Split Comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR). In: Boehnhardt, H., Combi, M., Kidger, M.R., Schulz, R. (eds) Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1088-6_15

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