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

Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp: Volume 2 Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 186 21-25 January 2002, Tenerife, Spain
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Springer
Country
NL
Published
1 December 2010
Pages
524
ISBN
9789048161560

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

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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