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Cecilia Tubiana

Comet researcher at INAF-IAPS in Rome, former Rosetta OSIRIS team scientist and Juice mission JANUS camera co-investigator

Oct 9, 2026

8:16
Observing a comet so, so far away, how can you es- estimate, uh, the composition, the, the vapor, water vapor production, production rate, for instance?
8:27
So, uh, yeah, as you said, um, these are all very preliminary result.
8:32
One, one thing that should be kept in mind is that the observation secured, uh, in November, between the 5th and the 25th of November, but the data took three months to come to ground.
8:42
So we actually received the data only i- in the second half of February.
8:47
And, uh, and so that's when then the data exploitation started.
8:52
So this also explain why, uh, we are a bit, uh...
8:56
I mean, many results are still being, uh, being analyzed just now.

5 MINS LATER

14:17
Um, do you, um, did you see this kind of different kind of complex chemistry on this comet specifically?

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