Icy Bodies of the Solar System (Iau S263) - Colloqui

Klappentext IAU S263 provides a state-of-the-art review of icy bodies in the Solar System, emphasizing their importance across many disciplines. Zusammenfassung IAU Symposium 263 provides a state-of-the-art review of icy bodies in the Solar System! a topic that is crucial to understanding processes involved in the Solar System's formation! the consequences for water on planets! and the habitable zones around other stars. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Overview; 1. The icy planetesimals and accretion processes in the protoplanetary disk; 2. Dynamical aspects of icy bodies. The Oort cloud; 3. Icy satellites of the outer planets; 4. Icy dwarf planets and TNOs; 5. Transition objects; 6. Physical processes in comets; 7. Space missions to icy bodies: past, present and future; Author index; Object index; Subject index.

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• Authors: Julio A. Fernandez, Julio A. (Universidad De La Republica Fernandez, Julio A. Lazzaro Fernandez, International Astronomical Union
• Assisted by: Julio A. Fernandez (Editor), Julio A. (Universidad De La Republica Fernandez (Editor), Fernandez Julio A. (Editor), Daniela Lazzaro (Editor), Lazzaro Daniela (Editor), Dina Prialnik (Editor), Dina (Tel-Aviv University) Prialnik (Editor), Prialnik Dina (Editor), Rita (European Space Agency) Schulz (Editor), Schulz Rita (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2010
• EAN: 9780521764889
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76488-9
• No. of pages: 342
• Series: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATION; PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATION; Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Symposia and Colloquia
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; Solar system: the Sun & planets, Solar system: the Sun and planets, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy