Physics and Chemistry of Comets:
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1. Verfasser: Huebner, Walter F. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1990
Schriftenreihe:Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
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Beschreibung:As this excellent book demonstrates, the study of comets has now reached the fascinating stage where we understand comets in general simple terms while, at the same time, we are uncertain about practically all the details of cometary nature, structure, processes, and origin. In every aspect, even including dynamics, a choice among several or many competing theories is made impossible simply by the lack of detailed knowledge. The space missions, snapshot studies of two comets, particularly the one that immortalizes the name of Sir Edmund Halley, have produced a huge mass of valuable new information and a number of surprises. Nonetheless, we face the tantalizing realization that we have obtained only a fleeting glance at two of perhaps a hundred billion (1011) or more comets with possibly differing natures, origins, and physical histories. To my personal satisfaction, comets seem to have discrete nuclei made up of dirty snowballs, as I concluded four decades ago, but perhaps they are more like frozen rubbish piles
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 376p. 147 illus)
ISBN:9783642748059
9783642748073
ISSN:0941-7834
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-74805-9

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