Comets in the 21st Century
Subtitle: A Personal Guide to Experiencing the Next Great Comet!
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published: 2019
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781643274430
Description: The purpose of this book is to bring comets into the living rooms of general households, to familiarize politicians with these fascinating objects when they ponder funding for comet research, to teach children and young students and to provide teaching tools about these very unusual objects in our skies. The presentation is very comprehensive in its description of orbits around the Sun, the development of the coma (escaping atmosphere) from a comet's nucleus and source of all activities, various types of comet tails, trailing as well as leading as a comet orbits our Sun, ancient beliefs and explanations of these phenomena and the most recent discovery of the first interstellar comet.