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D. Jewitt & A. Morbidelli
Trans-Neptunian Objects and Comets [PDF ebook]
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Kuiper Belt and Comets: An Observational Perspective.- Comets and Their Reservoirs: Current Dynamics and Primordial Evolution.- Comets.

About the author

David Jewitt is professor at the University of Hawaii and joint discoverer (with Jane Luu) of the first trans-Neptunian object, 1992 QB1.

Alessandro Morbidelli is researcher at Nice Observatory and winner of the Urey Prize of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in 2000.

Heike Rauer is professor at the Free University of Berlin and staff scientist at the DLR institute for Planetary Research. She is joint discoverer of the sodium tail of comet Hale-Bopp.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 258 ● ISBN 9783540719588 ● File size 14.9 MB ● Editor Kathrin Altwegg & Willy Benz ● Publisher Springer Berlin ● City Heidelberg ● Country DE ● Published 2007 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2163295 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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