| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Hauppauge, N.Y., : Nova Science Publishers, c2012
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (155 p.)
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| Disciplina |
523.6
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| Altri autori (Persone) |
MelarkPeter G
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| Collana |
Space science, exploration and policies
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| Soggetto topico |
Comets
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| ISBN |
1-62081-700-4
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- COMETS CHARACTERISTICS, COMPOSITION AND ORBITS -- SPACE SCIENCE, EXPLORATION AND POLICIES -- COMETS CHARACTERISTICS, COMPOSITION AND ORBITS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PLANETARY ORIGIN OF COMETS: ROLE OF COLLISIONS AND MAGNETO-ELECTROCHEMISTRY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CLOSE BINARY COSMOGONY OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS -- 2.1. Gas Dynamics Involved in Binary Formation -- 2.2. How Many Planets Could Have the Solar System? -- 2.3. The Transneptunian Planetary Cloud -- 3. ON THE ORIGIN OF LPCS -- 4. SP COMETS - PRODUCT OF EXPLOSIONS OF ELECTROLYZED ICES OF ICY PLANETS -- 4.1. On the Structure of Great Icy Satellites of Giant Planets -- 4.2. Electrodynamics of Magnetized Plasma Flows about the MLBs and Electrolysis of Their Ices -- 4.3. Capability of Detonation of Electrolyzed Ices -- 5. ORIGIN OF THE EARLIEST SPCS AND ASTEROIDS OF THE MAIN BELT -- 5.1. Two-Dimensional Gasdynamics of the Phaethon Explosion -- 5.2. Consequences of a Possible Existence of Phaethon's Satellite -- 5.3. Dormant Comets in the MB -- 6. TITAN'S EXPLOSION, ITS DATING AND CONSEQUENCES -- 6.1. Dating of Titan's Explosion -- 6.2. Some Facts Accounted for by Recent Titan's Explosion -- 6.3. Certain Predictions Following from Titan's Explosion -- 6.3.1. Confirmed Predictions -- 6.3.2. Conclusions to Be Verified -- 7. EXPLOSIONS OF GALILEAN SATELLITES: SOME INFERENCES -- 7.1. On a Structure of the Satellites -- 7.2. Origin of Irregular Satellites -- 7.3. Origin of Trojans -- 7.4. Galilean Ensemble as Ideal Place for the Life Origin -- 8. INTERNAL ENERGETICS OF COMET NUCLEI. SOME INFERENCES -- 8.1. Bursts and Splitting of Nuclei -- 8.2. Specific Features of the Gas-Dynamics and Chemistry of Outflows. Lessons of P/Halley -- 8.3. Tunguska Phenomenon of 1908 -- 8.3.1. "Explosion-in-Flight" (EF) and Related Problems.
8.3.2. Meteoroid Trajectory and Its Turn -- 8.3.3. Detonation of a Part of Cometary Nucleus as a Cause for the Trajectory Turn -- 8.3.4. Search for P/Tunguska-1908 -- 8.4. Cometary Origin of Martian Satellites and Their Specific Features -- 9. RESULTS OF DEEP IMPACT AND STARDUST MISSIONS CONFIRM CONCLUSIONS OF NEC -- 9.1. 2D Calculations of the Impact Gas-Dynamics with Consideration for Forced Detonation -- 9.2. DI Experiment Indicates Excess Energetics of Ejecta from the Crater -- 9.3. Parameters of Dust in the Coma of P/Tempel 1 Also Confirm NEC -- 9.4. What Are the Results of the Stardust Mission? -- 9.5. Stardust Returned Material -- 9.6. On the Nature of Ca-Al-Rich Inclusions (CAI) -- 10. CALLISTO'S ICE EXPLOSION HAZARD AND PRIORITY OF SPACE MISSIONS -- 10.1. New Evidence Favoring the Primary Structure of Callisto -- 10.2. Some Features of Callisto's Interaction with Jovian Magnetic Field -- 10.3. Consequences of Explosion of Callisto's Ices -- 10.4. Priority Status of a Mission to Callisto -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- COMETS AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: PIONEER OF ORGANICS FOR CHEMICAL EVOLUTION -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Comets and Life -- 1.2. Comets and the Early Earth -- 2. FORMATION OF COMETS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM -- 3. DISTRIBUTION OF COMETS -- 3.1. Cometary Reservoirs -- 3.2. Cometary Families -- 4. COMETARY STRUCTURE -- 4.1. Physical Model of Comets -- 4.2. Cometary Composition -- 4.3. Mineralogy of Comets -- 4.3.1. Silicate and Other Refractory Components of Comets (Crystalline and Amorphous) -- 4.3.2. Cometary Dust Proxies -- 4.4. The Role of Organics: Mineral Interactions in Chemical Evolution -- 4.5. Radiation and Comets -- 4.6. Study of Comets: Cometary Missions -- 4.7. Laboratory Approaches -- 4.7.1. Models Related to Pure Ice -- 5. COMETS AND THE DELIVERY OF ORGANICS AND VOLATILES TO THE EARLY EARTH.
6. LIFE AND THE EFFECT OF COSMIC BODIES -- 7. REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- CAVITIES AS A SOURCE OF OUTBURSTS FROM COMETS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. OBSERVED OUTBURSTS FROM DIFFERENT COMETS -- 2. COMETARY-LIKE ACTIVITY OF OBJECTS MOVING IN TYPICAL ASTEROID ORBITS -- 3. TRIGGERED DEEP IMPACT OUTBURST -- 4. PECULIARITIES OF THE DEEP IMPACT EJECTION AND CAVITIES IN COMET TEMPEL 1 -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- POTENTIAL OF APPLICATION OF COLOR INFRARED FILMS FOR NEAR INFRARED OBSERVATIONS OF COMETS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- POTENTIAL OF THE COLOR INFRARED SPECTRO-ZONAL FILM FOR OBSERVATIONS OF COMETS -- OBSERVATIONS OF COMETS ON COLOR INFRARED FILM -- CORONAL COMPONENTS OF SIMILAR ORIGIN AS PLASMA TAILS OF COMETS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PROCESSING 19TH CENTURY COMETARY OBSERVATIONS -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Standardization of the Observations -- 3. Processing the Observations -- 4. Errors in the Observations -- 5. Missing Data in the Observations -- 6. Weighting the Observation -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- INDEX.
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Comets [[electronic resource] ] : characteristics, composition and orbits / / Peter G. Melark, editor