PHYSICS OF COMETS - (THIRD EDITION)

This revised edition places a unique emphasis on all the new results from ground-based, satellites and space missions detection of molecule H2 and prompt emission lines of OH for the first time; discovery of X-rays in comets; observed diversity in chemical composition among comets; the puzzle of the constancy of spin temperature; the well-established mineralogy of cometary dust; extensive theoretical modeling carried out for understanding the observed effects; the similarity in the mineralogy of dust in circumstellar shell of stars, comets, meteorites, asteroids and IDPs, thus indicating the generic relationship between them.

List of contents

General Introduction; Dynamics; Physical Aspects; Spectra; Spectra of Coma; Gas-Production Rates in Coma; Dust Tail; Light Scattering Theory; The Nature of Dust Particles; Ion Tails; Nucleus; Origin; Relation to Other Solar System Objects; Problems and Prospects.

Product details

• Authors: K S Krishna Swamy, K S Krishna Swamy, K. S. Krishna Swamy, K S Krishna Swamy, K. S. Krishna Swamy
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.2010
• EAN: 9789814291118
• ISBN: 978-981-4291-11-8
• No. of pages: 460
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 812 g
• Series: World Scientific Series in Ast; World Scientific Astronomy and
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous