Description
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In the last two decades of the 20th century, we obtained our first detailed look at a cometary nucleus and detected objects in the Kuiper-Edgeworth Belt for the first time. These two observations have resulted in a major leap forward in our understanding of small bodies in our Solar System. Combined with powerful new approaches to the study of Solar System dynamics, progress within the last 20 years has been staggering. This book attempts to synthesize these new findings in a manner which is readable for new graduate students in the field.
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David Jewitt: Kuiper Belt and Comets: An Observational Perspective.- Alessandro Morbidelli: Comets and Their Reservoirs: Current Dynamics and Primordial Evolution.- Heike Rauer: Comets.
(Author portrait)
David Jewitt is professor at the University of Hawaii and joint discoverer (with Jane Luu) of the first trans-Neptunian object, 1992 QB1.
Contents
Kuiper Belt and Comets: An Observational Perspective.- Comets and Their Reservoirs: Current Dynamics and Primordial Evolution.- Comets.
