Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp
Author | : Hermann Böhnhardt |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2013-03-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789401710862 |
ISBN-13 | : 9401710864 |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.