Meteor showers and their parent comets /

"Meteor Showers and Their Parent Comets is a unique handbook for astronomers interested in observing meteor storms and outbursts. The author, a leading astronomer in the field and an active meteor storm chaser, explains how meteoroid streams originate from the decay of comets (and asteroids) an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jenniskens, Petrus Matheus Marie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Temas:
Meteors.
Comets.
Meteoroids
Météores.
Comètes.
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I: INTRODUCTION: How meteor showers were linked to comets
  • What is the core of comets?
  • The formation of meteoroid streams
  • Meteors from meteoroid impacts on Earth
  • Comet and meteoroid orbits
  • PART II: PARENT BODIES: Long-period comets
  • Halley-type comets
  • Jupiter-family comets
  • Fading comets of the inner Solar System
  • Asteroids as parent bodies of meteoroid streams
  • PART III: YOUNG STREAMS FROM WATER VAPOR DRAG: Forecasting meteor storms from what planets do to dust trails
  • Meteor storm chasing
  • Meteor outbursts from long-period comets
  • Trapped: the Leonid Filament
  • The Leonid storms
  • The Ursids
  • The Perseids
  • Other Halley-type comets
  • Dust trails of Jupiter-family comets
  • PART IV: YOUNG STREAMS FROM COMET FRAGMENTATION: Quadrantids
  • Broken comets
  • Geminids
  • The sunskirting Arietids and -Aquariids
  • x-Capricornids and k-Cygnids
  • The Taurid complex
  • PART V: OLD STREAMS AND SPORADIC METEOROIDS: Annual showers
  • Dispersion from gradually evolving parent body orbits
  • The ecliptic streams
  • Toroidal streams
  • Meteor showers from asteroids
  • Sporatic meteors and the zodiacal cloud
  • PART VI: IMPACT AND RELEVANCE OF METEOR SHOWERS: Impact!
  • Meteor showers on other planets
  • Meteors and the origin of life.

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