Format:
1 Online-Ressource (getrennte Seitenzählung)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
Edition:
Version: 20190401
ISBN:
9781643274461
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9781643274447
Series Statement:
IOP concise physics
Content:
The purpose of this book is to bring comets into the living rooms of general households, to familiarize politicians with these fascinating objects when they ponder funding for comet research, to teach children and young students and to provide teaching tools about these very unusual objects in our skies. The presentation is very comprehensive in its description of orbits around the Sun, the development of the coma (escaping atmosphere) from a comet's nucleus and source of all activities, various types of comet tails, trailing as well as leading as a comet orbits our Sun, ancient beliefs and explanations of these phenomena and the most recent discovery of the first interstellar comet.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781643274430
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781643274430
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1088/2053-2571/ab027e
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