Abstract:In this review attention is focused on those areas of the dynamical investigation of cometary dust in which significant progress has been achieved since the previous review papers (Sekanina 1976a, 1977). Much of the progress stems from work based on the model of dust comets formulated by Finson and Probstein (1968a). Their introduction of a new technique for dust-tail studies has made it possible for the first time to gain insight into such properties of cometary dust as the size distribution function of parti… Show more
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