Title Physics and Chemistry of Comets Author(s) Huebner, Walter F Publication Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1990. Description XVI, 376 p : online resource Abstract Note As this excellent book demonstrates, the study of comets has now reached the fas?? cinating stage where we understand comets in general simple tenns while, at the same time, we are uncertain about practically all the details of cometary nature, structure, processes, and origin. In every aspect, even including dynamics, a choice among several or many competing theories is made impossible simply by the lack of detailed knowledge. The space missions, snapshot studies of two comets, partic?? ularly the one that immortalizes the name of Sir Edmund Halley, have produced a huge mass of valuable new infonnation and a number of surprises. Nonetheless, we face the tantalizing realization that we have obtained only a fleeting glance at two of perhaps a hundred billion (lOll) or more comets with possibly differing natures, origins, and physical histories. To my personal satisfaction, comets seem to have discrete nuclei made up of dirty snowballs, as I concluded four decades ago, but perhaps they are more like frozen rubbish piles ISBN,Price 9783642748059 Keyword(s) 1. EBOOK 2. EBOOK - SPRINGER 3. GEOLOGY 4. GEOPHYSICS 5. Geophysics/Geodesy 6. MINERALOGY 7. SPACE SCIENCES 8. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I02027     On Shelf