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Old 03-March-2008, 08:30 PM
VanderL VanderL is offline
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The articles are talking about an artificial fluidised-bed reactor using plasma derived from high concentrations of atomic hydrogen. In the environment of a comet can you indicate what rate of water production you would expect to see within the EU comet model?
Of course I expect the water production rate from discharging to be equal to the actually observed amounts. But that probably is not what you want to know. If you give me a couple of days, I should be able to come up with something useful.

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Is it sufficient to generate the tail?
I don't think water molecules generate the tail (I assume you mean the ion tail), I think I read somewhere that the ion tail is mostly ionised CO.

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It is only fair to ask you this as this has been done for the conventional model regarding surface ice.
I'm not sure I understand this, what exactly has been demonstrated for the conventional model?

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