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Original Discovery Papers

These are PDF documents of the two Small Comets "Discovery" papers (GRL-13_4_*.pdf) as they were published in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) in April 1986. They are in B&W. The color plates are provided here separately.

PDF GRL-13_4_I.pdf (1,053,184 bytes)

PDF GRL-13_4_II.pdf (498,176 bytes)


There are also 10 seperate Reply (reply-*.pdf) papers that appeared in the GRL over the subsequent years as the authors responded to specific written COMMENTS which were also published in GRL (but are not reproduced here).

PDF reply-Chubb.pdf (1,504,768 bytes)
PDF reply-Cragin.pdf (463,872 bytes)
PDF reply-Davis.pdf (496,128 bytes)
PDF reply-Donahue.pdf (250,368 bytes)
PDF reply-Hanson.pdf (466,432 bytes)
PDF reply-McKay.pdf (224,256 bytes)
PDF reply-Morris.pdf (308,224 bytes)
PDF reply-Rubincam.pdf (180,224 bytes)
PDF reply-Soter.pdf (420,864 bytes)
PDF reply-Wasson.pdf (251,392 bytes)

These papers from Geophysical Research Letters are Copyright ©1986, 1987 by the American Geophysical Union. Further electronic distribution is not allowed.

Review Paper

An extensive review article was written in 1993 and published in Reviews of Geophysics by Frank and Sigwarth. It has been translated to Adobe PDF format. Note, some of the conversions to a PDF document are not as perfect as would be liked for plots, special characters, etc. from the original document. The document is in B&W with the color plates from the original document provided individually here.

PDF Reviews of Geophysics, Vol 31, 1, Feb 1993. (3,228 kB)

This paper from Reviews of Geophysical is Copyright ©1993 by the American Geophysical Union. Further electronic distribution is not allowed.

Polar VIS Contribution Papers

Four papers on the subject of Small Comets were published in the AGU Geophysical Research Letters of October 1997 (Vol. 24, No. 19) and their content are reproduced here in a couple different formats.

These papers from Geophysical Research Letters are Copyright ©1997 by the American Geophysical Union. Further electronic distribution is not allowed.

Atmospheric Holes: Instrumental and Geophysical Effects

A paper concering automated searches for Small Comets in the Polar image data and was published in the AGU Journal of Geophysical Research of January 1999 (Vol. 104, No. 1). Its' content is reproduced here in a couple different formats.

This paper from the Journal of Geophysical Research is Copyright ©1999 by the American Geophysical Union. Further electronic distribution is not allowed.

Ground-based Observations of Small Comets

A paper concering Ground-based telescopic observations of Small Comets was published in the AGU Journal of Geophysical Research of March 2001 (Vol. 106, No. A3, 3665-3683). Its' content is reproduced here in a couple different formats.

This paper from the Journal of Geophysical Research is Copyright ©2001 by the American Geophysical Union. Further electronic distribution is not allowed.


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