Comets in the 21st Century: A Personal Guide to Experiencing the Next Great Comet!
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Description
The purpose of this book is to bring comets into the living rooms of general households, to familiarize politicians with these fascinating objects when they ponder funding for comet research, to teach children and young students and to provide teaching tools about these very unusual objects in our skies. The presentation is very comprehensive in its description of orbits around the Sun, the development of the coma (escaping atmosphere) from a comet's nucleus and source of all activities, various types of comet tails, trailing as well as leading as a comet orbits our Sun, ancient beliefs and explanations of these phenomena and the most recent discovery of the first interstellar comet.
Keywords
Comets; Handbooks and manuals; Popular works;
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9781643274447
Publication Date
2019
Publisher
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
City
San Rafael, CA
Department
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Disciplines
Astrophysics and Astronomy
Object Description
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Hockey, Thomas and Boice, Daniel C., "Comets in the 21st Century: A Personal Guide to Experiencing the Next Great Comet!" (2019). Faculty Book Gallery. 750.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/750
