Comets And Their Origin: The Tools To Decipher A CometJohn Wiley & Sons, 9 févr. 2015 - 352 pages 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. 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. |
Table des matières
The Formation of Comets | 97 |
Water and Organic Molecules in Comets | 133 |
The Asymmetry of Life | 163 |
The Rosetta MissionRendezvous with a Comet | 189 |
1 | 209 |
Rosettas Rendezvous with the Comet | 233 |
8 | 293 |
Foreword by Michael F AHearn | xiii |
Preface | xxi |
Comets and their Origin | 1 |
19PBorrelly | 50 |
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