Overview
- Comprehensive entry into the field of Transneptunian Objects and Comets for advanced students and young researchers
- Updated lectures notes of the Saas-Fee Advanced Course 35
Part of the book series: Saas-Fee Advanced Course (SAASFEE, volume 35)
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About this book
In the last two decades of the 20th century, we obtained our first detailed look at a cometary nucleus and detected objects in the Kuiper-Edgeworth Belt for the first time. These two observations have resulted in a major leap forward in our understanding of small bodies in our Solar System. Combined with powerful new approaches to the study of Solar System dynamics, progress within the last 20 years has been staggering. This book attempts to synthesize these new findings in a manner which is readable for new graduate students in the field.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
David Jewitt is professor at the University of Hawaii and joint discoverer (with Jane Luu) of the first trans-Neptunian object, 1992 QB1.
Alessandro Morbidelli is researcher at Nice Observatory and winner of the Urey Prize of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in 2000.
Heike Rauer is professor at the Free University of Berlin and staff scientist at the DLR institute for Planetary Research. She is joint discoverer of the sodium tail of comet Hale-Bopp.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets
Book Subtitle: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 35. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
Authors: David Jewitt, Alessandro Morbidelli, Heike Rauer
Series Title: Saas-Fee Advanced Course
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71958-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-71957-1Published: 05 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09109-4Published: 25 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-71958-8Published: 13 November 2007
Series ISSN: 1861-7980
Series E-ISSN: 1861-8227
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 114 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Astrobiology