SB10 | Comets and active bodies: Science from Earth-based and space missions observations

SB10

Comets and active bodies: Science from Earth-based and space missions observations
Convener: Elena Martellato | Co-conveners: Geraint Jones, Colin Snodgrass, Seiji Sugita, Michael Küppers, Aurelie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Charlotte Götz, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, Fiorangela La Forgia, Pamela Cambianica, Monica Lazzarin

This session aims to bring together the community working on comets.
Comets are primitive bodies, and therefore their detailed characterization is a key objective to probe the early stages of Solar System formation. The combined efforts from Earth-based observations, space missions, and modelling have revealed a class of bodies very broad in terms of physical and dynamical properties.
We invite contributions from all related topics, covering findings about all aspects of comets, as regarding their nucleus, coma, dust, and plasma properties, as well as international programs for their observations. We welcome presentations that explore and model data collected by past space missions, as well as presentations of upcoming ones, such as the ESA-led Comet Interceptor.
We encourage contributions that explore comet formation and evolution, in relation to general models of the Solar System, fostering lively discussions and collaborations between colleagues working on similar problems for different classes of objects (e.g. dust release from Active Asteroid vs Jupiter Family Comets vs outbursts of Centaurs). In particular, we encourage contributions that explore the continuum of small bodies and the overlap between different populations and look forward to an exciting set of talks about ground based observations and recent/future space missions.

This session aims to bring together the community working on comets.
Comets are primitive bodies, and therefore their detailed characterization is a key objective to probe the early stages of Solar System formation. The combined efforts from Earth-based observations, space missions, and modelling have revealed a class of bodies very broad in terms of physical and dynamical properties.
We invite contributions from all related topics, covering findings about all aspects of comets, as regarding their nucleus, coma, dust, and plasma properties, as well as international programs for their observations. We welcome presentations that explore and model data collected by past space missions, as well as presentations of upcoming ones, such as the ESA-led Comet Interceptor.
We encourage contributions that explore comet formation and evolution, in relation to general models of the Solar System, fostering lively discussions and collaborations between colleagues working on similar problems for different classes of objects (e.g. dust release from Active Asteroid vs Jupiter Family Comets vs outbursts of Centaurs). In particular, we encourage contributions that explore the continuum of small bodies and the overlap between different populations and look forward to an exciting set of talks about ground based observations and recent/future space missions.