Comets And Their Origin (eBook)
353 Seiten
Wiley-VCH (Verlag)
978-3-527-41278-5 (ISBN)
Divided into two parts, the first four chapters of Comets andtheir Origin refer to comets and their formation in general,describing cometary missions, comet remote observations,astrochemistry, artificial comets, and the chiralityphenomenon.
The second part covers the cometary Rosetta mission, its launch,journey, scientific objectives, and instrumentations, as well asthe landing scenario on a cometary nucleus. Along the way, theauthor presents general questions concerning the origin ofterrestrial water and the molecular beginnings of life
on Earth, as well as how the instruments used on a space missionlike Rosetta can help answer them. The text concludes with achapter on what scientists expect from the Rosetta mission and howits data will influence our life on Earth.
As a result, the author elucidates highly topical and fascinatingknowledge to scientists and students of various scientificbackgrounds, allowing them to work with Rosetta‘s data.
Uwe J. Meierhenrich is full Professor of Chemistry andteaches at the University Nice Sophia Antipolis in France.Professor Meierhenrich studied chemistry at the Philipps Universityof Marburg, Germany. After completing his Ph.D. at the Universityof Bremen, he identified amino acids in artificial comets at theMax Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindauand at the Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire in Orléansin preparation for the cometary Rosetta mission. ProfessorMeierhenrich is co-investigator of the cometary sampling andcomposition COSAC instrument onboard of Rosetta's lander Philae andhis scientific research activities are dedicated to the chemistryof comets and the cometary mission Rosetta. He was awarded theHorst Pracejus Prize from the GDCh in 2011 for his work onchirality and enantioselective chromatography.
Uwe J. Meierhenrich is full Professor of Chemistry and teaches at the University Nice Sophia Antipolis in France. Professor Meierhenrich studied chemistry at the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Bremen, he identified amino acids in artificial comets at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau and at the Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire in Orléans in preparation for the cometary Rosetta mission. Professor Meierhenrich is co-investigator of the cometary sampling and composition COSAC instrument onboard of Rosetta's lander Philae and his scientific research activities are dedicated to the chemistry of comets and the cometary mission Rosetta. He was awarded the Horst Pracejus Prize from the GDCh in 2011 for his work on chirality and enantioselective chromatography.
Foreword Professor Michael F. A'Hearn
Foreword Professor Gerhard A. Schwehm
Preface
Part I Comets and Their Origin
1. Introduction
2. The Formation of Comets
3. Astrochemistry: Water and Organic Molecules in Comets
4. The Asymmetry of Life
Part II The Rosetta Mission - Rendezvous With a Comet
5. The Rosetta Cometary Mission: Launch and Target Comet
6. On the Way to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
7. Rosetta's Rendezvous With the Comet
8. Conclusions and Outlook
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.1.2015 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik |
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| Schlagworte | Aeronautic & Aerospace Engineering • Astronomie • Astronomie u. Astrophysik • Astronomy & Astrophysics • Astrophysik • asymmetry • atomic and molecular physics • Atom- u. Molekülphysik • Atom- u. Molekülphysik • author • Background • Comet • comets • Different • earth sciences • F • foreword professor • Formation • Geophysics • Geophysik • Geowissenschaften • Komet • Life • Luft- u. Raumfahrttechnik • Maschinenbau • mechanical engineering • mission rendezvous • Molecules • P • Part • Physics • Physik • Professor • Rosetta • rosetta cometary mission • rosettas rendezvous • Scientific • students • Way |
| ISBN-10 | 3-527-41278-6 / 3527412786 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-527-41278-5 / 9783527412785 |
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