The Dusty universe
Subtitle: proceedings of a symposium honoring Fred Lawrence Whipple on his retirement as director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, October 17-19, 1973
By: George B. Field and A. G. W. Cameron, editors.
Contributors: Whipple, Fred Lawrence, 1906-; Field, George B., 1929-; Cameron, A. G. W. 1925-; Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Publisher: Published for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory by Neale Watson Academic Publications
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Whipple, Fred Lawrence, 1906-; Cosmic dust.; Interstellar matter.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Field, G. B. and Cameron, A. G. W. Introduction.; title: Cameron, A. G. W. The role of dust in cosmogony.; title: Barshay, S. S. and Lewis, J. S. Chemistry of solar material.; title: Salpeter, E. E. Dust in stellar atmospheres.; title: Woolf, N. J. Circumstellar dust.; title: Field, G. B. The composition of interstellar dust.; title: Watson, W. D. Interaction of gas and dust in the interstellar medium; title: Greenberg, J. M. and Hong, S. S. Effects of particle shape on volume and mass estimates of interstellar grains.; title: Purcell, E. M. Interstellar grains as pinwheels.; title: McCrosky, R. E. Cometary debris.; title: Millman, P. M. Dust in the solar system.; title: Hemenway, C. L. Collections of cosmic dust.; title: Wood, J. A. The fine-grained structure of chondritic meteorites.; title: Grossman, L. Dust in the solar nebula.; title: Whipple, F. L. Comments.