Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets

• Main Authors: Jewitt, David (Author), Morbidelli, Alessandro (Author), Rauer, Heike (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 35, Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy, 35
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Space sciences.; Astrobiology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

In the last two decades of the 20th century, we obtained our first detailed look at a cometary nucleus and detected objects in the Kuiper-Edgeworth Belt for the first time. These two observations have resulted in a major leap forward in our understanding of small bodies in our Solar System. Combined...

Table of Contents:

• Kuiper Belt and Comets: An Observational Perspective
• Comets and Their Reservoirs: Current Dynamics and Primordial Evolution
• Comets.