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Title: Extended atmospheres of outer planet satellites and comets. Interim report, 15 June-14 September 1987

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5275119
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A major model documentation paper for cometary gas coronae and a second paper successfully applied the model to simulate the hydrogen Lyman-alpha coma of comet Kohoutek were completed and are discussed. New and very exciting data for the hydrogen distribution in the Saturn system obtained form earlier unreduced Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 data are preliminarily reviewed. This new data opens up a whole new series of investigations and indicate that Saturn's corona plays a major role in supplying hydrogen to the circumplanetary volume.

Research Organization:
Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA (USA)
OSTI ID:
5275119
Report Number(s):
N-88-18540; NASA-CR-181449; NAS-1.26:181449; TRN: 88-016299
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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