Research Catalog

Title

Space missions to comets : a conference / sponsored by NASA Office of Space Science and held at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, October 1977 ; editors, M. Neugebauer, D.K. Yeomans, J.C. Brandt, R.W. Hobbs.

Author

Symposium on Space Missions to Comets (1977 : Goddard Space Flight Center)

Publication

[Washington] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch, 1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Neugebauer, Marcia
• Yeomans, Donald K.
• Brandt, John C.
• Hobbs, R. W.
• United States. Office of Space Science, sponsor.

Description

v, 226 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Series Statement

NASA conference publication ; 2089

Uniform Title

NASA conference publication ; 2089.

Subject

• Comets > Congresses
• Comets
• Exploration of outer space
• COMETS
• ORBITS
• SPACE EXPLORATION
• CONFERENCES
• Halley's comet > Congresses
• Outer space > Exploration > Congresses
• Outer space
• Solar system > Halley's comet
• HALLEY'S COMET

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Scientific need for a cometary mission / Fred L. Whipple -- Connections between comets and plasmas in space / Frederick L. Scarf -- Comets: cosmic connections with carbonaceous meteorites, interstellar molecules and the origin of life / Sherwood Chang -- Comets, carbonaceous chondrites, and interstellar clouds: condensation of carbon / G.B. Field -- Scientific returns from a program of space missions to comets / A.H. Delsemme -- Comet Hailey and history / Brian G. Marsden -- Ion propulsion and Comet Hailey rendezvous / Kenneth L. Atkins -- Summary of panel discussion / C.R. O'Dell -- Summarizing comments / G.W. Wetherill.

LCCN

79604295

OCLC

• ocm06787250
• 6787250
• SCSB-8977394

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library