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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.

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Author:   Hermann Böhnhardt ,  Michael Combi ,  Mark R. Kidger ,  Rita Schulz
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2003
Weight:   0.596kg
ISBN:  

9789048162888

ISBN 10:   9048162882
Pages:   343
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The Nucleus of Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1): Size and Activity.- Modeling the Comet Nucleus Interior. Application to Comet C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp.- Lessons of Comet Hale-Bopp for Coma Chemistry: Observations and Theory.- Hale-Bopp: What Makes a Big Comet Different? Coma Dynamics: Observations and Theory.- Comet Splitting — Observations and Model Scenarios.- Observational Constraints on Surface Characteristics of Comet Nuclei.- Rotational Properties of Cometary Nuclei.- Sublimation Mechanisms of Comet Nuclei.- Composition of Comets: Observations and Models.- New Experimental and Theoretical Techniques for Studying Photochemical Reactions of Cometary Atmospheres.- Physico-Chemistry of Comets: Models and Laboratory Experiments.- Comet Grains: Their IR Emission and their Relation to ISM Grains.- The Comet Nucleus Tour (Contour), A NASA Discovery Mission.- The Deep Space 1 Encounter with Comet 19P/Borrelly.- Long-Period Comets and the Oort Cloud.

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