Icy Bodies of the Solar System (IAU S263)
Series: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Symposia and Colloquia;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 29 April 2010
- ISBN 9780521764889
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages342 pages
- Size 254x178x18 mm
- Weight 750 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 135 b/w illus. 35 tables 0
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Short description:
IAU S263 provides a state-of-the-art review of icy bodies in the Solar System, emphasizing their importance across many disciplines.
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IAU Symposium 263 provides a state-of-the-art review of icy bodies in the Solar System, a topic crucial to understanding processes involved in the Solar System's formation, the consequences for water on planets, and ultimately, the habitable zones around other stars. Ice-rich planetesimals which form beyond the snow line are discussed, using an interdisciplinary approach. The main topics covered include: accretion of icy grains in the protoplanetary disk, the long-period comet flux and the Oort cloud population, transfer mechanisms of bodies from their source regions to the Sun's neighborhood, the physics and dynamics of trans-Neptunian objects, transition objects (comets and asteroids), cryovolcanism and modeling the interiors of icy bodies, and a review of past, present and future space missions. This volume gives a broad overview of the importance of these bodies, from comets up to liquid water on terrestrial planets, and the formation of ices in the Solar System.
'... provides an excellent start for new PhDs [and/or] postdocs who are inclined to start research on icy bodies in the solar system.' Contemporary Physics
Table of Contents:
Preface; Overview; 1. The icy planetesimals and accretion processes in the protoplanetary disk; 2. Dynamical aspects of icy bodies. The Oort cloud; 3. Icy satellites of the outer planets; 4. Icy dwarf planets and TNOs; 5. Transition objects; 6. Physical processes in comets; 7. Space missions to icy bodies: past, present and future; Author index; Object index; Subject index.
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