Keywords:
Comets -- Congresses.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This volume presents the results of a scientific workshop on comet nuclei. It formulates the current understanding and interconnectivity of the various source regions of comet nuclei and their associated compositions and orbital characteristics.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (322 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780387854557
Series Statement:
Space Sciences Series of ISSI Series ; v.28
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=416967
DDC:
523.6
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- INTRODUCTION -- Origins of Cometary Materials -- Origin of Comet Nuclei and Dynamics -- SECTION I: RESERVOIRS FOR MATERIAL -- Reservoir for Comet Material: Circumstellar Grains -- Interstellar Reservoirs of Cometary Matter -- Cometary Refractory Grains: Interstellar and Nebular Sources -- SECTION II: RESERVOIRS FOR COMETS -- Dynamical Origin of Comets and Their Reservoirs -- Reservoirs for Comets: Compositional Differences Based on Infrared Observations -- SECTION III: EVOLUTION OF NUCLEI -- Thermal and Chemical Evolution of Comet Nuclei and Kuiper Belt Objects -- Loss of the Surface Layers of Comet Nuclei -- SECTION IV: NEW RESULTS FROM LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING -- Distributed Sources in Comets -- How Well Do Experimental Results on Large Sample of Gas-Laden Amorphous Ice Duplicate Deep Impact's Findings? -- Comet Knudson Layers -- SECTION V: NEW RESULTS FROM OBSERVATIONS -- Morphology-Composition-Isotopes: Recent Results from Observations -- Deep Impact and the Origin and Evolution of Cometary Nuclei -- Assessing the elemental composition of comet 81P/Wild 2 by analyzing dust collected by Stardust -- SECTION VI: FUTURE - THE ROSETTA MISSION -- Composition Measurements of a Comet from the Rosetta Orbiter Spacecraft -- Capabilities of Philae, the Rosetta Lander -- CLOSURE -- Rapporteur Paper on the Composition of Comets -- COLLOQUIUM -- The Contributions of Comets to Planets, Atmospheres, and Life: Insights from Cassini-Huygens, Galileo, Giotto, and Inner Planet Missions.
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