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G. Thangjam et al 2016 ApJL 833 L25

Data from the Dawn spacecraft reveals that the Occator crater on Ceres, a dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt, contains a thin layer of haze that varies diurnally, likely produced by sublimation activity.

K. Sárneczky et al 2016 AJ 152 220

A decade-long survey of the activity of 50 long-period comets in our solar system shows that dynamically new comets have a higher level of activity and develop more symmetric comae.

R. O. Chancia and M. M. Hedman 2016 AJ 152 211

Voyager 2 images of Uranus’s α and β rings show patterns that may be wakes from small moonlets orbiting exterior to the rings. The moonlets’ estimated sizes are too small to resolve in the images, however.

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