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Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp: Volume 1 Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 186 21–25 January 2002, Tenerife, Spain

By R. Schulz (eds.) , Yanga R. Fernández (auth.) , H. Boehnhardt , M. Combi , M. R. Kidger

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2003
ISBN
978-90-481-6288-8, 978-94-017-1086-2
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-1086-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5052632 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
343\341
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
AstronomyObservations and Techniques; Planetology

Description

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. This is the first volume with invited review papers. A second volume with contributed papers is published in ISBN 1-4020-0978-X.

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