Icy Bodies of the Solar System (IAU S263) Hardback
Edited by Julio A. (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay) Fernandez, Daniela Lazzaro, Dina (Tel-Aviv University) Prialnik, Rita (European Space Agency) Schulz
Part of the Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Symposia and Colloquia series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:342 pages, 35 Tables, black and white; 135 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:29/04/2010
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- ISBN:9780521764889
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:342 pages, 35 Tables, black and white; 135 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:29/04/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521764889
