Comets And Their Origin

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Comets And Their Origin

The Tools To Decipher A Comet

Solar system: the Sun and planets Physics Earth sciences

Author: Uwe Meierhenrich

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Language: English

Published by: Wiley-VCH

Published on: 12th November 2014

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 12 Mb

ISBN: 9783527412792


Part One: Comets and Their Formation

Divided into two parts, the first four chapters of Comets and their Origin refer to comets and their formation in general, describing cometary missions, comet remote observations, astrochemistry, artificial comets, and the chirality phenomenon.

Part Two: The ROSETTA Mission

The second part covers the cometary ROSETTA mission, its launch, journey, scientific objectives, and instrumentations, as well as the landing scenario on a cometary nucleus. Along the way, the author presents general questions concerning the origin of terrestrial water and the molecular beginnings of life on Earth, as well as how the instruments used on a space mission like ROSETTA can help answer them.

The text concludes with a chapter on what scientists expect from the ROSETTA mission and how its data will influence our life on Earth.

As a result, the author elucidates highly topical and fascinating knowledge to scientists and students of various scientific backgrounds, allowing them to work with ROSETTA's data.

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