Interpretation of the break in Comet Halley's tail
1986
Photographs of the broken tail of Comet Halley taken in January 1986 suggest that the comet had crossed a tangential discontinuity in the solar-wind velocity field. The velocity jump amounts to about 20 percent of the wind velocity itself, one of several properties analogous to fronts in the terrestrial atmosphere.
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