
Physics Of Comets (3rd Edition)
(THIRD EDITION)
K. S. Krishna Swamy(Author)
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
3rd Edition
Published on 27. August 2010
Book
Hardback
460 pages
978-981-4291-11-8 (ISBN)
Description
This revised edition places a unique emphasis on all the new results from ground-based, satellites and space missions - detection of molecule H2 and prompt emission lines of OH for the first time; discovery of X-rays in comets; observed diversity in chemical composition among comets; the puzzle of the constancy of spin temperature; the well-established mineralogy of cometary dust; extensive theoretical modeling carried out for understanding the observed effects; the similarity in the mineralogy of dust in circumstellar shell of stars, comets, meteorites, asteroids and IDPs, thus indicating the generic relationship between them.
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Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
812 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-4291-11-8 (9789814291118)
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Person
Author
Nat'l Astronomical Observatory, Japan & Tata Inst Of Fundamental Res, India
Content
General Introduction; Dynamics; Physical Aspects; Spectra; Spectra of Coma; Gas-Production Rates in Coma; Dust Tail; Light Scattering Theory; The Nature of Dust Particles; Ion Tails; Nucleus; Origin; Relation to Other Solar System Objects; Problems and Prospects.