Icy Bodies of the Solar System (IAU S263)
IAU Symposium 263 provides a state-of-the-art review of icy bodies in the Solar System, a topic crucial to understanding processes involved in the Solar System's formation, the consequences for water on planets, and ultimately, the habitable zones around other stars. Ice-rich planetesimals which form beyond the snow line are discussed, using an interdisciplinary approach. The main topics covered include: accretion of icy grains in the protoplanetary disk, the long-period comet flux and the Oort cloud population, transfer mechanisms of bodies from their source regions to the Sun's neighborhood, the physics and dynamics of trans-Neptunian objects, transition objects (comets and asteroids), cryovolcanism and modeling the interiors of icy bodies, and a review of past, present and future space missions. This volume gives a broad overview of the importance of these bodies, from comets up to liquid water on terrestrial planets, and the formation of ices in the Solar System.
- Provides a unique review of icy bodies in the Solar System
- Contains a wide-ranging collection of original papers, discussing key topics in the area
- Considers all the icy bodies in the Solar System, from comets to liquid water on terrestrial planets, and presents a broader view of the importance of these bodies
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'… provides an excellent start for new PhDs [and/or] postdocs who are inclined to start research on icy bodies in the solar system.' Contemporary Physics
Product details
April 2010Hardback
9780521764889
342 pages
254 × 178 × 18 mm
0.75kg
135 b/w illus. 35 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Overview
- 1. The icy planetesimals and accretion processes in the protoplanetary disk
- 2. Dynamical aspects of icy bodies. The Oort cloud
- 3. Icy satellites of the outer planets
- 4. Icy dwarf planets and TNOs
- 5. Transition objects
- 6. Physical processes in comets
- 7. Space missions to icy bodies: past, present and future
- Author index
- Object index
- Subject index.