The collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter: IAU Colloquium 156 : proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Workshop, held in Baltimore, Maryland, May 9-12, 1995

The spectacular collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in July 1994 was a unique event in the history of observational astronomy. With a year's advance warning, astronomers and planetary scientists around the world were able to co-ordinate an observing campaign to track the event in u...

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Körperschaft: Space Telescope Science Institute Workshop <1995, Baltimore, Md.> (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Noll, Keith S. (HerausgeberIn), Weaver, Harold A. 1953- (HerausgeberIn), Feldman, Paul D. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch Tagungsbericht E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1996
Schriftenreihe:Space Telescope Science Institute symposium series 9
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511525056
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511525056
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511525056
Zusammenfassung:The spectacular collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in July 1994 was a unique event in the history of observational astronomy. With a year's advance warning, astronomers and planetary scientists around the world were able to co-ordinate an observing campaign to track the event in unprecedented detail. A year after the event, a workshop at the Space Telescope Science Institute provided the first opportunity for them to bring together their observations and found a new understanding of the impact. Based on this meeting, sixteen invited reviews from authors selected as international leaders in the study of the impact and its aftermath are presented in this volume. The chapters have been edited and arranged to provide a thorough and comprehensive overview of our knowledge of the event. While our understanding of the impact will evolve with future work, this book provides a solid foundation for new insights that will follow. It will be a standard reference for graduate students and researchers in astronomy and planetary science
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Umfang:1 online resource (xiv, 373 pages)
ISBN:9780511525056
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511525056