Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsGeneral 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.
