[IAUC] CBET 2524: 20101103 : COMET 103P/HARTLEY

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                                                  Electronic Telegram No. 2524
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
CBAT Director:  Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University;
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COMET 103P/HARTLEY
     N. Biver, D. Bockelee-Morvan, J. Crovisier, and A. Lecacheux, LESIA,
Observatoire de Paris; U. Frisk, Swedish Space Corporation; H.-G. Floren, and
Aa. Sandqvist, Stockholm Observatory; A. Hjalmarson, Onsala Space Observatory;
and the Odin team report observations of the water rotational line at 557 GHz
in comet 103P/Hartley with the Odin satellite from Oct. 29.4 to 31.7 UT.  The
line intensity is rapidly varying, with corresponding water-production rates
ranging from 0.6 to 0.9 x 10**28 molecules/s.


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2010 November 3                  (CBET 2524)              Daniel W. E. Green