Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp

Boehnhardt, H.; Combi, M.; Kidger, M. R.; Schulz, R.
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Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp. Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 186, 21-25 January 2002, Tenerife, Spain. Edited by H. Boehnhardt, European Southern Observatory, Santiago,Chile; M. Combi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A.; M.R. Kidger, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain; R. Schulz, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Reprinted from EARTH, MOON, AND PLANETS, Volume 90, Nos. 1-4, 2002. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht

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2002
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Comet Hale-Bopp defines a milestone event for cometary science: it is the first "really big" comet observed with modern equipment on the ground and from space and due to that; it is considered the new reference object in cometary sciences. At the beginning of a new era in spacecraft exploration of comets and five years after Hale-Bopp's perihelion passage these proceedings of invited and contributed papers for IAU Colloquium 186 "Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp" review the state-of-the-art knowledge on comets, the icy, dusty and most primordial left-overs of the formation disk of our own solar system. Link: http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-0978-X