Origins of Cometary Materials
Abstract
In this introductory presentation, material is categorized according to our state of knowledge: What do we know, what do we think we know but don't know certainly, and what do we not know but often describe it as if it were a well-established fact about comets, their nuclei, their composition, and processes within comets and their nuclei. The material is presented not with the intend to criticize laboratory work simulating condition in comet nuclei, or observers analyzing their observations, nor modelers using data from both these sources to improve our understanding and make predictions. The intent is to provoke discussion and dialog between these groups to avoid overstating the results.
- Publication:
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Origin and Early Evolution of Comet Nuclei
- Pub Date:
- 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1007/978-0-387-85455-7_2
- Bibcode:
- 2009oeec.book....5H
- Keywords:
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- Comet nuclei;
- Atomic and molecular constituent;
- State of matter;
- Physico-chemical processes