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    • Centaur shapes and the origin of bilobate Jupiter-family comets 

      Safrit, Taylor K. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
      The bilobate shape distribution of Jupiter-family comets (JFCs) is of unconstrained origin. One theory is that JFC progenitors become bilobate in the Centaur region, where sublimation of volatiles from object surfaces may ...