Cometary Science After Hale-Bopp: Volume 2 Proceedings of Iau Colloquium 186 21-25 January 2002, Tenerife, Spain

by Rita Schulz, Mark R. Kidger, Michael Combi

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048161568
• ISBN13: 9789048161560
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 524 Pages