THERMODYNAMIC ESTIMATION OF HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS CONTENT IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO COMET
Thermodynamic methods of systems with the chaos of chemical composition are used to calculate different hydrocarbon compounds composition distribution in the gaseous shell of Churyumov-Gerasimenko Comet. The data of the European Space Agency, obtained with the Rosetta Lander Imaging System probe (ROLIS), is used in the work. According to the obtained results, using mathematical modeling along with statistical methods of equilibrium thermodynamics, functions of normal components distribution on heat of formation at a common cometary nucleus temperature of 100 K have been constructed. A relative amount of hydrocarbons is predicted.