Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp Volume 2 Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 186 21–25 January 2002, Tenerife, Spain
Comet Hale-Bopp defines a milestone event for cometary science: it is the first "really big" comet observed with modern equipment on the ground and from space and due to that; it is considered the new reference object in cometary sciences. At the beginning of a new era in spacecraft explor...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2002, 2002
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2002 |
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | Comet Hale-Bopp defines a milestone event for cometary science: it is the first "really big" comet observed with modern equipment on the ground and from space and due to that; it is considered the new reference object in cometary sciences. At the beginning of a new era in spacecraft exploration of comets and five years after Hale-Bopp's perihelion passage these proceedings of invited and contributed papers for IAU Colloquium 186 "Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp" review the state-of-the-art knowledge on comets, the icy, dusty and most primordial left-overs of the formation disk of our own solar system |
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Physical Description: | XI, 524 p. 100 illus., 12 illus. in color online resource |
ISBN: | 9789401710886 |