# Mass loss rate in a typical visible-from-Earth comet

What is the typical range of a comet's mass loss per second to its dust and gas tails, while it is naked-eye visible from Earth?

I'm aware this is going to be a very broad range and expect it to cover multiple orders of magnitude, so any specific examples — Hale–Bopp, Halley's, or similar, at any point where their apparent magnitude was enough to be visible without a telescope — would be perfectly valid answers, even though I'm mainly curious about the minimum.

[Target level: I'm an amateur enthusiast, not a professional].

M. Choukroun et al. and cited sources therein estimate the mass loss rate of 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko at around $$10^{28}$$ molecules/s at peak mass loss and an overall around $$10^{10}$$ kg (corresponding to ~1kg/s) during the whole perihelion passage over the course of the 2 years. Moreno et al give dust loss rates around 1 to 1000 kg/s during perihelion passage. G. C. Sanzovo et al. do a comparative study for a number of recent bright comets and get similar numbers.
There exists an old study from 1987 by Kresak, L. & Kresakova, M. which estimates the mass loss rates for many comets per century giving values between $$10^8$$ and $$10^{12}$$ kg / century (higher end is Halley) - which generally are not too far off of what is quoted above, but take these values with a grain of salt as far fewer in-situ measurments to calibrate models were available by then and science on comets has progressed a lot since.