Blazing a Ghostly Trail [E-Book] : ISON and Great Comets of the Past and Future / by Peter Grego.
A special celestial event climaxes towards the end of 2013, the arrival, fresh from the Oort Cloud, of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON). By all predictions, this comet was set to be one of the most dazzling comets seen in modern history. Sky watchers will have already been primed for C/2012 (ISON) earlier i...
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| Personal Name(s): | Grego, Peter, author |
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1st ed. 2014. |
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Cham :
Springer,
2014
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| Physical Description: |
XIV, 294 pages 221 illustrations, 136 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
| ISBN: |
9783319017754 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-01775-4 |
| Series Title: |
The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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- Introduction: Setting the scene for C/2012 S1 (ISON) and incoming comets
- What is a comet and where do they come from? (Primordial leftovers, Oort Cloud, etc)
- Portents of change and doom (historical perspectives on comets, myths and superstitions, end of world predictions, hyperbole)
- Great comets (including Halley's Comet, Ikeya-Seki, IRAS-Araki-Alcock, Hyakutake, Hale-Bopp, McNaught, etc)
- Comets up close observations by space probes (VeGa, Giotto, ICE, Deep Impact, etc)
- C/2012 S1 and selected bright comets of the future (discovery, magnitude predictions, paths through Solar System).