Dust in the Solar System and Other Planetary Systems Proceedings of the Iau Colloquium 181, Held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K., 4-10 Apr
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
- Publish date: 01/01/2003
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This book reflects the thematic approach adopted at the last joint IAU and COSPAR Colloquium in Gainesville in 1995, with a flow outwards (from meteors in the atmosphere, through zodiacal dust observation and interplanetary dust, to extra solar planetary systems) and returning (via the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt and comets) to the Earth, with laboratory studies of physical and chemical processes and the study of extraterrestrial samples.
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Since that meeting, there have been dramatic changes in the field resulting from in-situ space experiments, Earth-orbiting satellites and ground-based observations. As is always the case when great strides take place observationally, much theoretical work follows, and the same is true in this instance. While data about the planetary medium from Venus to Jupiter was beginning to be available at the meeting in 1995, the data from both Galileo and Ulysses have now been more fully analysed, with a corresponding increase in our knowledge.
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