Whipple, FL

Japanese: Whipple,F.L.(英語表記)WhippleFL
Whipple, FL

…The comet's nucleus, the main body of the comet, should be near the center of the central condensation, but it is thought that it cannot be seen directly from Earth. The size of the nucleus is about 1 to 10 km in diameter, and in the 1950s, American FL Whipple proposed a model called the "dirty snowball" hypothesis. The comet's nucleus is an irregularly shaped mass that is a mixture of snow made up of frozen methane, carbon dioxide, ammonia, water, etc., and solid particles of all sizes with diameters of a few centimeters or less, with a mass of 10 15 g, an average density of 1.1 g/cm3, and a period of rotation of 10 to 100 hours. …

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Japanese:

…中央集光の中心付近には,すい星の本体である核が存在するはずであるが,地球から直接は見えないものと考えられる。核の大きさは直径1~10kmほどで,1950年代にアメリカのホイップルF.L.Whippleは,〈汚れた雪玉〉説と呼ばれるモデルを唱えた。すい星核はメタン,二酸化炭素,アンモニア,水などが凍ってできた雪と,直径が数cm以下のあらゆる大きさをもった固体粒子がまじりあった一つの不規則な形をした塊で,質量1015g,平均密度1.1g/cm3,10~100時間の周期で自転しているらしい。…

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