Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp: Volume 1 Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 186 21-25 January 2002, Tenerife, Spain

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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. Due to this, 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 the 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.