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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Comets
    sub title: Nature, Dynamics, Origin, and their Cosmogonical Relevance
  name:
    name part: Fernández, Julio Angel.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 383 p. online resource.
  abstract: The book covers the most recent ideas about the nature and dynamics of comets, including a thorough discussion on Oort cloud dynamics which has not received due attention in other books on the subject. It also discusses the most relevant aspects of the physics and chemistry of comet nuclei, highlighting their importance as relics of the protoplanetary disk and, perhaps, as carriers of water and organics that permitted the development of life on Earth. The book contains several tables with useful data, and an ample bibliography covering the most recent work as well as some historical key contributions to the subject. It may be suitable as a textbook for graduate students with some basic knowledge of celestial mechanics and astrophysics, as well as a consult book for comet researchers, or researchers from other related fields willing to start working on comets, or get an updated view of the subject.
  table of contents: Early Ideas about Comets -- Statistics of Cometary Orbits and Magnitudes -- The Understanding of Their Physical Nature -- Dynamics of LP Comets Entering the Inner Planetary Region -- The Oort Cloud -- The Flux of New Comets: Quiescent and Excited Stages -- The Jupiter Family -- The Trans-Neptunian Belt -- Physical End States of Comets -- Leftovers of the Solar System Formation -- Comets and Life.
  note: by Julio Angel Fernández.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Space sciences
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics and Astroparticles
  subject:
    topic: Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: QB980-991
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; 328
  identifier: 9781402034954
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3495-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204165636.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-3495-4