COMETS II

By: Michel C. Festou, H. Uwe Keller, Harold A. Weaver

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Hardcover | 30 November 2004

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The study of comets is a field that has seen tremendous advances in recent years, far surpassing the knowledge reflected in the original Comets volume published as part of the Space Science Series in 1982. This new volume, with more than seventy contributing authors, represents the first complete overview of comet science in more than a decade and contains the most extensive collection of knowledge yet assembled in the field.

Comets II situates comet science in the global context of astrophysics for the first time by beginning with a series of chapters that describe the connection between stars and planets. It continues with a presentation of the formation and evolution of planetary systems, enabling the reader to clearly see the key role played in our own solar system by the icy planetesimals that were the seeds of the giant planets and transneptunian objects.

The book presents the key results obtained during the 1990s, in particular those collected during the apparition of the exceptional comets C/Hyakutake and C/Hale-Bopp in 1996-1997. The latest results obtained from the in situ exploration of comets P/Borrelly and P/Wild 2 are also discussed in detail.

Each topic of is designed to be accessible to students or young researchers looking for basic, yet detailed, complete and accurate, information on comet science. With its emphasis on the origin of theories and the future of research, Comets II

will enable scientists to make connections across disciplinary boundaries and will set the stage for discovery and new understanding in the coming years.

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"It's one-stop shopping for comet information. Any astronomy library without this title on its shelf is incomplete."--Sky Telescope

"Today's research students are very fortunate to have such an excellent book to introduce them to the joys and challenges of the subject."--The Observatory

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Non-Fiction Science Astronomy, Space & Time Physics Applied Physics Astrophysics

A brief conceptual history of cometary science	p. 3
Cometary science : the present and future	p. 17
The cycle of matter in our galaxy : from clouds to comets	p. 25
Composition and evolution of interstellar clouds	p. 33
From molecular clouds to circumstellar disks	p. 67
The observation of circumstellar disks : dust and gas components	p. 81
From icy grains to comets	p. 97
Coupled physical and chemical evolution of volatiles in the protoplanetary disk : a tale of three elements	p. 105
From interstellar material to comet particles and molecules	p. 115
Cometary orbit determination and nongravitational forces	p. 137
Oort cloud formation and dynamics	p. 153
The Kuiper belt and the primordial evolution of the solar system	p. 175
Dynamical evolution of ecliptic comets	p. 193
Current questions in cometary dynamics	p. 205
In situ observations of cometary nuclei	p. 211
The sizes, shapes, albedos, and colors of cometary nuclei	p. 223
Radar studies of comet nuclei and grain comae	p. 265
Rotation of cometary nuclei	p. 281
Split comets	p. 301
Physical and chemical evolution of cometary nuclei	p. 317
Structure and density of cometary nuclei	p. 337
Modeling the structure and activity of comet nuclei	p. 359
The composition of cometary volatiles	p. 391
Spectroscopic investigations of fragment species in the coma	p. 425
Photometry and imaging of the coma with narrowband filters	p. 449
Nucleus-coma structural relationships : lessons from physical models	p. 471
Physical processes and chemical reactions in cometary comae	p. 505
Gas dynamics and kinetics in the cometary coma : theory and observations	p. 523
Composition and mineralogy of cometary dust	p. 555
Motion of cometary dust	p. 565
Physical properties of cometary dust from light scattering and thermal emission	p. 577
Global solar wind interaction and ionospheric dynamics	p. 605
X-ray and extreme ultraviolet emission from comets	p. 631
Surface characteristics of transneptunian objects and centaurs from photometry and spectroscopy	p. 647
From cradle to grave : the rise and demise of the comets	p. 659
The interplanetary dust complex and comets	p. 677
Laboratory experiments on cometary materials	p. 695
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