Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp. Volume 2. En inglés

 

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 to be a 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.

 

 

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