The population, magnitudes, and sizes of Jupiter family comets

• We analyze the sample of measured nuclear magnitudes of the observed Jupiter family (JF) comets (taken as those with orbital periods P < 20 years and Tisserand parameters T > 2). We find a tendency of the measured nuclear magnitudes to be fainter as JF co

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astronomical data bases : miscellaneous; comets : general; SHORT-PERIOD COMETS; HUBBLE-SPACE-TELESCOPE; MAIN-BELT ASTEROIDS; CARBON-MONOXIDE; CCD PHOTOMETRY; RUBBLE PILES; KUIPER BELT; NUCLEUS; OBJECTS; HALLEY

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