
Comets in the 21st Century
- A personal guide to experiencing the next great comet!
- Daniel C Boice, Thomas Hockey
- April 2019
Description
About Editors
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Author Biographies
1. Introduction
2. Roller Coaster Comets
2.1 The Paths of Comets
2.2 Two Kinds of Comets
2.3 Celestial Clockwork
2.4 A Universe in Motion
2.5 The Gravity of the Situation
2.6 Looping Comets
2.7 Orbits of Your Own
3. What Comets Are All About
3.1 Parts of a Comet
3.2 What is a Comet Made of?
3.3 More on the Comet Nucleus
3.4 Comet Scene Investigation (CSI) Using Chemical Fingerprints
3.5 The Demise of Comets
3.6 The Origin of Comets
3.7 A Visit to a Comet
4. Comet Crashes
4.1 What if?
4.2 The Comets Come to Earth
4.3 The Killer Comet
5. Observing Comets
5.1 Eye on a Comet
5.2 Where to Go?
5.3 When to Look?
5.4 Expectations
6. Hunting Comets
6.1 Who Discovers Comets?
6.2 Where is Our Comet?
6.3 How Bright a Light?
6.4 Eureka! I've Found a Comet!
6.5 Starting Your Comet Quest
6.6 Epilogue
Appendices
A. Recipes for Teachers
B. Approximate Dates for Some Famous Meteor Showers
C. Typical Comet Visibility Rates
D. The Brightest Comets Since 1935
E. Notable Comets in History
F. Books on Historical Comets
G. Intermediate and Advanced Books on Comets
Glossary
Bibliographic
Paperback ISBN: 9780750329828
Ebook ISBN: 9781643274454
DOI: 10.1088/2053-2571/ab027e
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers