Physics of Comets (3rd Edition) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789814291118)

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.

Author: K. S. Krishna Swamy
ISBN-10: 9814291110
ISBN-13: 9789814291118
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2010
Pages: 460
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 208