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Cometary Science After Hale-Bopp
. Ed(S): Bohnhardt, Hermann (European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile); Combi, Michael (University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Usa); Kidger, Mark R
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Hardback. Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 186, 21-25 January 2002, Tenerife, Spain Editor(s): Bohnhardt, Hermann (European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile); Combi, Michael (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA); Kidger, Mark R. (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain); Schulz, Rita (European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands). Num Pages: 349 pages, 49 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 754.
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.
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Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
349
Condition
New
Number of Pages
343
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402012884
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V9781402012884
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