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Comets and their origin : the tools to decipher a comet /

Divided into two parts, the first four chapters of Comets and their Origin refer to comets and their formation in general, describing cometary missions, comet remote observations, astrochemistry, artificial comets, and the chirality phenomenon. The second part covers the cometary Rosetta mission, it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meierhenrich, Uwe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Wiley, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Divided into two parts, the first four chapters of Comets and their Origin refer to comets and their formation in general, describing cometary missions, comet remote observations, astrochemistry, artificial comets, and the chirality phenomenon. The second part covers the cometary Rosetta mission, its launch, journey, scientific objectives, and instrumentations, as well as the landing scenario on a cometary nucleus. Along the way, the author presents general questions concerning the origin of terrestrial water and the molecular beginnings of lifeon Earth, as well as how the instruments used on.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (863 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783527412778
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