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Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets

Publication year: 2008

ISBN: 978-3-540-71958-8

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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. This book attempts to synthesize these new findings in a manner which is readable for new graduate students in the field.


Subject: Physics and Astronomy, Comets, Kuiper Belt Objects, Origin of Life, Planet, Planet Formation, Planetary System, Solar System, Transneptunian Objects, astronomy, astrophysics, evolution, solar, the origin