Comet P/Tempel: Some highlights and conclusions from the 1988 apparition

From the brightness development and a sequence of imaging observations of the coma activity onset of comet P/Tempel 2 in 1988, it is concluded that there might have happened eruptive events of strong dust and gas outbursts during May and June 1988. A comparison of dust coma modeling calculations with CCD observations of the coma widely confirms Sekanina's nucleus model for the comet.