Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets.
Language: English
Published by Springer, Berlin, 2008
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ix + 258 pp. Saas-Fee Advanced Course 35. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy Rubber-stamped on front free endpaper. Slight crease across back cover.
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- Title
- Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets.
- Author
- Jewitt, D., A. Morbidelli, and H. Rauer
- Publisher
- Springer, Berlin
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- jacketcondition
- Book Type
- book
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3540719571
- ISBN 13
- 9783540719571
- Series
- Book 15 of 26: Saas-Fee Advanced Course
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- Astronomy
The study of the Solar system, particularly of its newly discovered outer parts, is one of the hottest topics in modern astrophysics with great potential for revealing fundamental clues about the origin of planets and even the emergence of life.
The three lecturers of the 35th Saas-Fee Advanced Course cover the field from observational, theoretical and numerical perspectives. Highly sensitive, wide-field electronic detectors have enabled the discovery and the exploration of the Kuiper Belt, while fast computers allow for numerical simulations to be made with a degree of sophistication previously unimaginable. Additionally, the perception of the Solar system in the bigger context of the galactic disk is changing, particularly as planets encircling other stars are detected. This volume, reviewing what is known about the Solar system, is therefore extremely timely, and the style it is written in conveys the excitement this field of research holds.
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About the Author
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.
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