Formal Acknowledgements
This research and document has made use of data and/or services provided by the
International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center. The work also includes
plots of database material from the JPL Horizons web site.
I have used data from the Rosetta instruments for many plots and images. I
acknowledge the experiment teams for the provision of data to ESA’s Planetary
Science Archive and have used that archive for almost all original diagrams based on
Rosetta data. In the following table (Table 2), I provide a list of the instruments and
the principal investigators. This table also serves as an acronym list for the instruments in the rest of the text.
Table 2 Rosetta instruments and principal investigators contributing data to the Planetary Science
Archive used herein
Acronym
Instrument type Subsystem
Subsystem type
Principal investigator
Orbiter
OSIRIS
Imaging system NAC
Narrow angle, highresolution camera
H.U. Keller (original)
H. Sierks (comet
operations phase)
(MPS, Göttingen)
WAC
Wide angle,
low-resolution
camera
VIRTIS
Infrared
spectrometer
M
Imaging
low-resolution
spectrometer
A. Coradini (original)
F. Capaccioni
(IAPS-INAF, Rome)
H
High-resolution spot
spectrometer
MIRO
Microwave
spectrometer
S. Gulkis (original)
M. Hofstetter (operations phase)
(NASA/JPL,
Pasadena)
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