Swamy, K S Krishna

Physics of Comets / by K S Krishna Swamy - 3rd ed. - New Jersey : W S P, 2010. - xiv, 445p. - World scientific series in Astronomy and Astrophysics; Vol.12 .

Includes bibliographical references; Index 441-445p.

This revised edition places a unique emphasis on all the new results from ground-based, satellites and space missions — detection of molecule H2 and prompt emission lines of OH for the first time; discovery of X-rays in comets; observed diversity in chemical composition among comets; the puzzle of the constancy of spin temperature; the well-established mineralogy of cometary dust; extensive theoretical modeling carried out for understanding the observed effects; the similarity in the mineralogy of dust in circumstellar shell of stars, comets, meteorites, asteroids and IDPs, thus indicating the generic relationship between them.

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Astronomy.
Astrophysics.
Physics of comets.
Physics.