Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp: Volume 2 Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 186 21–25 January 2002, Tenerife, Spain

Böhnhardt, Hermann; Combi, Michael; Kidger, Mark R.; Schulz, Rita

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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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2003-01-31

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781402009785

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1088-6

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 524