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

Abstract 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 an explosion....

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Published in:Icarus
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2262/65295
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2011.01.007