Browsing Theses - Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences by Author "Safrit, Taylor K"

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    • Sublimative torques as the origin of bilobate comets 

      Safrit, Taylor K (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
      About 70 percent of observed cometary nuclei are bilobate (made up of two masses of material connected by a narrow neck). In contrast, only 10-20 percent of similarly-sized asteroids are contact binaries or bilobate, ...