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The prodigious output of dust and CO observed in comet Hale-Bopp at a heliocentric distance of 6.5 AU is strongly suggestive of high-pressure release of material from liquified subsurface domains rather than thermal evaporation from a sunlit patch of frozen CO.
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Wickramasinghe, N., Hoyle, F. & Lloyd, D. Eruptions of Comet Hale-Bopp at 6.5 AU. Astrophysics and Space Science 268, 373–378 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002409423674
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