Deep impact mission : looking beneath the surface of a cometary nucleus /

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Imprint:	[Germany] : Springer, 2005.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Subject:	Comets -- Analysis. Comets -- Composition. Space probes. Comets -- Analysis. Comets -- Composition. Space probes.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8877081

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Other authors / contributors:	Russell, C. T. (Christopher T.)
ISBN:	9781402041631 1402041632
Notes:	Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Annotation Deep Impact, or at least part of the flight system, is designed to crash into comet 9P/Tempel 1. This bold mission design enables cometary researchers to peer into the cometary nucleus, analyzing the excavatednbsp;materialnbsp;with its imagers and spectrometers. The book describes the mission, its objectives, expected results, payload, and data products in articles written by those most closely involved. This mission has the potential of revolutionizing our understanding of the cometary nucleus. Annotation Deep Impact, or at least part of the flight system, is designed to crash into comet 9P/Tempel 1. This bold mission design enables cometary researchers to peer into the cometary nucleus, analyzing the excavated material with its imagers and spectrometers. The book describes the mission, its objectives, expected results, payload, and data products in articles written by those most closely involved. This mission has the potential of revolutionizing our understanding of the cometary nucleus.

Table of Contents:

Deep Impact: A Large-Scale Active Experiment on a Cometary Nucleus; Deep Impact Mission Design; An Overview of the Instrument Suite for the Deep Impact Mission; Autonomous Navigation for the Deep Impact Mission Encounter with Comet Tempel 1; The History and Dynamics of Comet 9P/Tempel 1; Deep Impact: Working Properties for the Target Nucleus
Comet 9P/Tempel 1; The Coma of Comet 9P/Tempel 1; Comet Geology with Deep Impact Remote Sensing; Expectations for Crater Size and Photometric Evolution from the Deep Impact Collision.

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