| Autor: |
A. J. Dessler, Bashar Rizk |
| Rok vydání: |
1997 |
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| Zdroj: |
Geophysical Research Letters. 24:3121-3124 |
| ISSN: |
0094-8276 |
| DOI: |
10.1029/97gl03185 |
| Popis: |
We investigate an obvious consequence of the small-comet hypothesis. We find that the 30-ton cloud of water-ice particles formed by a small comet would survive long enough to be an unmistakably bright object. The visual magnitude of such clouds would be between that of a bright star and the full Moon. A whole-Earth small-comet flux of 20/min implies the sudden appearance of at least two bright patches of light every five minutes. The two-hour periods after sunset and before sunrise ought to produce the most spectacular sightings—intermittent punctuations of bright rapidly-moving points of light. Because such events are not reported, we conclude that this class of object does not exist in detectable numbers. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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