NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2010A-0147
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PI: David Jewitt, UC Los Angeles, jewitt@ucla.edu
Address: UCLA Earth and Space Sciences and Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, 3713 Geology Building, Box 951567, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, USA
CoI: Henry Hsieh, Queen's University of Belfast
CoI: Chad Trujillo, Gemini Observatory - North
Title: Ice Near the Sun: The Main Belt Comets
Abstract:
Main-belt comets (MBCs) are objects simultaneously possessing the dynamical
characteristics of main-belt asteroids and the physical appearances of
comets. We propose a short imaging survey to assess mass-loss from a
potential new class of MBCs having small-perihelion (high temperature)
orbits. MBCs constitute a recently discovered and potentially large
repository for ice in a region previously thought to be occupied only by
rocky asteroids.
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