Published June 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

Vega and Giotto missions: is there an invisible mass in the Solar system

  • 1. AN SSSR, Moscow. Inst. Kosmicheskikh Issledovanij

Description

One can expect the presence of invisible mass (in the form of cometary nuclei) at the heliocentric distances 2x103 <or approx. r <or approx 2x104 a.u. if one assumes that the Oort cloud being only a rarefied halo surrounding the core (dense inner cometary cloud) and the mass of the comet Halley being typical for comets both in the core and the Oort cloud populations. The mass appears to be M ∼ 0.03 Msun with the angular momentum of the order of 1053 gcm2/s. This mass value is of the order of the total mass of the planetary system before the loss of volatiles. Therefore during of the protosolar nebula evolution of the formation of comets and planets was spent approximately equal masses

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (Russian)
Миссии Вега и Джотто: существует ли в Солнечной системе невидимая масса?

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Pis'ma v Astronomicheskij Zhurnal
Journal Volume
14
Journal Issue
6
Series
Pis'ma Astron. Zh.
Journal Page Range
564-568
ISSN
0320-0108
CODEN
PAZHD

INIS

Country of Publication
Russian Federation
Country of Input or Organization
USSR
INIS RN
20017471
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COMETS; MASS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
Descriptors DEC
DISTRIBUTION; MATTER