The Peculiar Volatile Composition of CO-dominated Comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS)

McKay, A; DiSanti, MA; Kelley, MSP; Knight, MM; Womack, M; Wierzchos, K; Pinto, OH; Bonev, B; Villanueva, GL; Dello Russo, N; Cochran, AL; Biver, N; Bauer, J; Vervack, RJ; Gibb, E; Roth, N; Kawakita, H

McKay, A (reprint author), NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.; McKay, A (reprint author), Amer Univ, Dept Phys, 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016 USA.; McKay, A (reprint author), Univ Hawaii, Infrared

ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL, 2019; 158 (3):

Abstract

Comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS) has a peculiar volatile composition, with CO being the dominant volatile, as opposed to H2O, and one of the largest N-2/CO......

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