Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp, Volume I

By Rita SchulzH. BoehnhardtHermann Böhnhardt, et al.

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402012888
• ISBN13: 9781402012884
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.2"