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Interplanetary Dust (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)


by Eberhard Grün, Bo A.S. Gustafson, Stan. Dermott, Hugo Fechtig

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Sales Rank: 1334493
Studio: Springer
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 804
Publication Date: August 09, 2001
Publisher: Springer


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Product Description
This is a handbook on the physics of interplanetary dust, a topic of interest not only to astronomers and space scientists but also to engineers. The following topics are covered in the book: historical perspectives; cometary dust; near-Earth environment; meteoroids and meteors; properties of interplanetary dust, information from collected samples; in situ measurements of cosmic dust; numerical modeling of the Zodiacal Cloud structure; synthesis of observations; instrumentation; physical processes; optical properties of interplanetary dust; orbital evolution of interplanetary dust; circumplanetary dust, observations and simple physics; interstellar dust and circumstellar dust disks.
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