Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This volume of proceedings contains research and review papers concerning the dynamics of asteroids and comets and especially their interactions with the Earth as signified by geological and historical records. Remembering what may have happened to the dinosaurs, but being careful to avoid creating irrational scares, the papers attempt to improve our knowledge of dynamics of the small objects of the Solar System and to assess in particular their effects on the Earth environment and the evolution of life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This symposium was devoted to the so-called minor bodies in the Solar System, and their mutual interrelationships. Asteroids, comets and meteors provide essential information on the history of the Solar System, starting with the early phases of planetary formation, until the present epoch...read more

Product Description: The symposium on which this book is based consisted of 75 invited and contributed presentations about controversial and poorly understood phenomena related to the plasma environments of comets, weakly magnetised and non-magnetised solar system bodies with significant atmospheres...read more

Product Description: Minor bodies in the Solar System, though representing only a small fraction of the mass in the Solar System, may well play a fundamental role in terrestrial evolution. This book contains investigations of the dynamics and physics of comets, asteroids and meteor streams, and the rather controversial topic of periodic phenomena in the Solar System as signified by geological records, together with several associated developments in celestial dynamics...read more

The Symposium on the Exploration of Halley's Comet held in Heidelberg in October 1986 brought together about 500 scientists who had participated in an unprecedented campaign: the joint investigation of Halley's Comet by six space vehicles and a worldwide network of ground-based observatories. This venture pushed back the limits of knowledge about comets, their origin, dynamics, composition and environment. Furthermore, the results of the exploration of Halley's Comet have deep implications for the present picture of the origin and evolution of the solar system.

Product Description: The return of Halley's Cornet in 1986 has generated much ex­ citement in the scientific community with preparations already afoot for an International Cornet Watch and a cornet launch by the European Space Community, the Japanese and Soviet Space Scientists...read more