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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.
This is the first volume with invited review papers. A second volume with contributed papers is published in ISBN 1-4020-0978-X.
List of contents
The Nucleus of Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1): Size and Activity.- Modeling the Comet Nucleus Interior. Application to Comet C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp.- Lessons of Comet Hale-Bopp for Coma Chemistry: Observations and Theory.- Hale-Bopp: What Makes a Big Comet Different? Coma Dynamics: Observations and Theory.- Comet Splitting - Observations and Model Scenarios.- Observational Constraints on Surface Characteristics of Comet Nuclei.- Rotational Properties of Cometary Nuclei.- Sublimation Mechanisms of Comet Nuclei.- Composition of Comets: Observations and Models.- New Experimental and Theoretical Techniques for Studying Photochemical Reactions of Cometary Atmospheres.- Physico-Chemistry of Comets: Models and Laboratory Experiments.- Comet Grains: Their IR Emission and their Relation to ISM Grains.- The Comet Nucleus Tour (Contour), A NASA Discovery Mission.- The Deep Space 1 Encounter with Comet 19P/Borrelly.- Long-Period Comets and the Oort Cloud.
Summary
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.
This is the first volume with invited review papers. A second volume with contributed papers is published in ISBN 1-4020-0978-X.
