Interplanetary Dust /

Dust in interplanetary space has many faces: dust originating from comets and asteroids, and interstellar dust sweeping through our solar system. These three components have a genetic relationship: interstellar dust is the solid phase of interstellar matter from which stars and planets form. Cometar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Grün, Eberhard
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Gustafson, Bo Å. S., Dermott, Stan, Fechtig, Hugo
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2001.
Series:	Astronomy and astrophysics library.
Subjects:	Physics. Physical geography. Astrophysics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

From the contents: Historical Perspectives
Optical and Thermal Properties of Interplanetary Dust
Cometary Dust
Near Earth Environment
Discoveries from Observations and Modeling of the 1998/99 Leonids
Properties of Interplanetary Dust: Information from Collected Samples
In-Situ Measurements of Cosmic Dust
Synthesis of Observations
Instrumentation
Physical Processes
Interactions with Electromagnetic Radiation: Theory and Laboratory Simulations
Orbital Evolution of Interplanetary Dust
Dusty Rings and Circumplanetary Dust: Observations and Simple Physics
Interstellar Dust and Circumstellar Dust Disks
Glossary
Index.