Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp
Subtitle: Volume 2 Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 186 21–25 January 2002, Tenerife, Spain
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 10, 2010
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9789048161560
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.
Notes: Source title: Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp: Volume 2 Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 186 21–25 January 2002, Tenerife, Spain