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ISBN 10: 3527412816
ISBN 13: 9783527412815
Author: Uwe Meierhenrich
Table of contents:
Part I: Comets and their Origin
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Preliminary Remarks
1.2 Motivation to Land a Probe on a Cometary Nucleus
1.3 Introduction to the Physical Characteristics of Comets
1.4 Space Probes Vega, Sakigake, and Suisei: Observations of Comet 1P/Halley
1.5 The Giotto Spacecraft and the First Image of a Cometary Nucleus
1.6 Comet 19P/Borrelly as Observed by Deep Space 1 and the Contour Comet Nucleus Tour
1.7 The Stardust Sample Return Mission to Comet 81P/Wild
1.8 The Deep Impact Mission’s Excavation of Comet 9P/Tempel 1
References
Chapter 2: The Formation of Comets
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Whipple’s Dirty Snowball Model of Cometary Nuclei
2.3 Formation and Collection of Interplanetary Dust Particles or Brownlee Particles
2.4 The Greenberg Core-Mantle Grain Model
2.5 Remote Photometric and Spectroscopic Characterization of Comets
References
Chapter 3: Astrochemistry: Water and Organic Molecules in Comets
3.1 Water in Cometary Ices
3.2 Artificial Comets: Organic Molecules Identified in Simulated Interstellar Ices
3.3 Amino Acids in Simulated Interstellar Ices
3.4 The Intended Detection of Organic Molecules in a Cometary Nucleus
3.5 The Behavior of Organic Molecules During Cometary Impact
3.6 The Origin of Life on Earth
References
Chapter 4: The Asymmetry of Life
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Photochemical Formation of Chiral Organic Molecules
4.3 Enantiomeric Excesses in Meteoritic Molecules
4.4 Symmetry Breaking by the Weak Nuclear Interaction
4.5 Enantioselective Instruments on the Mars Science Laboratory and ExoMars
References
Part II: The Rosetta Mission-Rendezvous with a Comet
Chapter 5: The Rosetta Cometary Mission: Launch and Target Comet
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Launch Countdown in 2002 and the Targeting of Comet 46P/Wirtanen
5.3 The Successful Rosetta Launch with an Ariane 5G+ Rocket in 2004
5.4 Characterization of Target Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
References
Chapter 6: On the Way to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
6.1 Accelerating the Rosetta Probe Using Swing-by Maneuvers Around Mars and Earth
6.2 Rosetta’s Observation of Comet 9P/Tempel during the Deep Impact Event in 2005
6.3 Rosetta Spacecraft Mistaken as a Near-Earth Asteroid
6.4 Rosetta’s Asteroid Flybys: Šteins in 2008 and Lutetia in 2010
6.5 Rosetta Operations Prior to the Cometary Rendezvous
References
Chapter 7: Rosetta’s Rendezvous with the Comet
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Rosetta in an Artificial Orbit Around the Comet
7.3 Soft-landing on the Nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Rosetta’s Landing Unit Philae
7.4 First Photos to be Taken on a Cometary Nucleus
7.5 The First Science Sequence on a Cometary Nucleus
7.6 The Long-Term Science Sequence Approaching the Sun Piggyback on a Comet
References
Chapter 8: Conclusions and Outlook
8.1 What Do We Learn from Rosetta’s Cometary Exploration?
8.2 The Influence of Rosetta’s Data on Our Life on Earth
8.3 The Next Steps in Comet Exploration and Chirality
References
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