Comet 17P/Holmes: possibility of a CO driven explosion

• Published in: Icarus
• Main Authors: Kossacki, Konrad J., Szutowicz, Slawomira
• Other Authors: Pasteura 7, Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK), Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences = Académie polonaise des sciences (PAN)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2011
• Subjects: Comets; Composition; Ices; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Moreno; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00734594; https://hal.science/hal-00734594/document; https://hal.science/hal-00734594/file/PEER_stage2_10.1016%252Fj.icarus.2011.01.007.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2011.01.007

International audience This work is a continuation of our previous paper about brightening of Comet 17P/Holmes (Kossacki and Szutowicz, 2010). In that paper we presented results of simulations indicating that the nonuniform crystallization of amorphous water ice itself is probably not sufficient for...