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The study of Comet Halley in 1986 was a tremendous success for cometary science. In March of that year, six spacecrafts passed through Comet Halley as close as 600 km from the nucleus and made the in situ measurements of various kinds. These space missions to Comet Halley and that of the ICE spacecr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Krishna Swamy, K. S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, ©1997.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:World Scientific series in astronomy and astrophysics ; v. 2.
Temas:
Comets.
Comètes.
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
Comets
Komet
Cometas, planet men meteoritos (estado fisico)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. General introduction. 1.1. Historical perspective. 1.2. Encounter with comet Halley. 1.3. Discovery. 1.4. Appearance. 1.5. Statistics. 1.6. Importance. 1.7. Brightness. 1.8. Main characteristics. 1.9. An overall view
  • 2. Dynamics. 2.1. Orbital elements. 2.2. Orbit in space
  • 3. Physical aspects. 3.1. Black body radiation. 3.2. Perfect gas law. 3.3. Dissociative equilibrium. 3.4. Doppler shift. 3.5. Spectroscopy. 3.6. Isotope effect. 3.7. Franck-Condon factors. 3.8. Intensity of emitted lines. 3.9. Boltzmann distribution. 3.10. [symbol]-doubling. 3.11. Solar radiation. 3.12. Solar wind
  • 4. Spectra. 4.1. Main characteristics. 4.2. Forbidden transitions. 4.3. Line-to-continuum ratio
  • 5. Spectra of coma. 5.1. Fluorescence process. 5.2. Excitation temperature. 5.3. Abundances of heavy elements. 5.4. Isotopic abundances
  • 6. Gas-production rates in coma. 6.1. Theoretical models. 6.2. Results. 6.3. Analysis of hydrogen observations. 6.4. Gas-phase chemistry in the coma. 6.5. Temperature and velocities of the coma gas. 6.6. Parent molecules. 6.7. Summary
  • 7. Dust tail. 7.1. Dynamics. 7.2. Anti-tail. 7.3. Dust features. 7.4. Icy-halo
  • 8. Light scattering theory. 8.1. Mie scattering theory. 8.2. Approximate expressions. 8.3. Computation of cross sections. 8.4. Results. 8.5. Particles of other types. 8.6. Optical constants
  • 9. The nature of dust particles. 9.1. Visible continuum. 9.2. Polarization. 9.3. Infrared measurements. 9.4. Spectral features. 9.5. Properties derived from in situ measurements. 9.6. Albedo of the particles. 9.7. Continuum emission in the radio region. 9.8. Radiation-pressure effects. 9.9. Summary
  • 10. Ion tails. 10.1. Evidence for the solar wind. 10.2. Dynamical aberration. 10.3. Theoretical considerations. 10.4. Instabilities and waves. 10.5. Acceleration of cometary ions. 10.6. Large scale structures
  • 11. Nucleus. 11.1. Theory of vaporization. 11.2. Outbursts. 11.3. Albedo and radius. 11.4. Rotation. 11.5. Density. 11.6. Chemical composition. 11.7. Mass loss. 11.8. Structure. 11.9. Non-gravitational forces
  • 12. Origin. 12.1. Evidence for the oort cloud. 12.2. Evolution and properties of oort cloud. 12.3. Origin of the oort cloud
  • 13. Relation to other solar system. 13.1. Asteroids. 13.2. Meteorites. 13.3. Meteor streams. 13.4. Particles collected at high altitudes. 13.5. Primordial material. 13.6. Chemical evolution. 13.7. Overview
  • 14. Problems and prospects. 14.1. Epilogue. 14.2. Future studies. 14.3. Postscript.

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