Isbn: 9789048161560 - cometary science after hale-bopp: volume 2 proceedings of iau colloquium 186 21–25 january 2002, tenerife, spain (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…