Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp

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Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp is written by Hermann Böhnhardt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9401710880 (ISBN 10) and 9789401710886 (ISBN 13).

Comet Hale-Bopp defines a milestone event for cometary science: it is the first "really big" comet observed with modern equipment on the ground and from space and due to that; it is considered the new reference object in cometary sciences. At the beginning of a new era in spacecraft exploration of comets and five years after Hale-Bopp's perihelion passage these proceedings of invited and contributed papers for IAU Colloquium 186 "Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp" review the state-of-the-art knowledge on comets, the icy, dusty and most primordial left-overs of the formation disk of our own solar system.