[IAUC] CBET 3912: 20140621 : COMET 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 3912
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
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COMET 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO
     S. Gulkis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
on behalf of the Microwave Instrument on Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) science team,
reports that the (1_10)-(1_01) water line at 556.9 GHz was first detected in
Comet 67P with the MIRO instrument aboard the Rosetta spacecraft on June 6.55
UT.  The line area is 0.39 +/- 0.06 K km/s, with a line amplitude of 0.48 +/-
0.06 K and a line width of 0.76 +/- 0.12 km/s.  At the time of the
observations, the spacecraft was about 360000 km from the comet (and r = 3.93
AU).  An initial estimate of the water-production rate, based on the
measurements, is that it lies between 0.5 x 10**25 and 4 x 10**25 molecules/s.


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2014 June 21                     (CBET 3912)              Daniel W. E. Green