Comets Nature, Dynamics, Origin, and their Cosmogonical Relevance /

• Main Author: Fernández, Julio Angel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; 328
• Subjects: Physics.; Planetology.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Space sciences.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

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, highligh...

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.