Author

Contributions

  • Morbidelli, Alessandro. - Contributor
  • Rauer, H. - Contributor

Publication

2008 - Springer, Berlin, Germany

Language

English

Word Count

64,500 words, Guess

Page Count

258 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • LCCQB694 .J49 2008
  • LCCQB1-991QB460-466QB98
  • LCCQB721 .J49 2008
and 1 more
  • DDC523.49

Description

In the last two decades of the 20th century, we obtained our first detailed look at a cometary nucleus and detected objects in the Kuiper-Edgeworth Belt for the first time. These two observations have resulted in a major leap forward in our understanding of small bodies in our Solar System. Combined with powerful new approaches to the study of Solar System dynamics, progress within the last 20 years has been staggering. This book attempts to synthesize these new findings in a manner which is readable for new graduate students in the field.

Subjects

Topics

CometsPhysicsAstronomyCongressesExobiologyKuiper BeltSolar system

Genres

  • Congresses

Series Statement

  • Saas-fee advanced courses / Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy -- 35

Other Editions

  • Trans-Neptunian objects and comets: Swiss society for astrophysics and astronomySpringer2008-01-01

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