Table of Contents: “... Space -- Formaldehyde Polymers in Comets -- Composition of Cometary Dust: the Case against Silicates -- Primitive Grain Clumps and Organic Compounds in Carbonaceous Chondrites -- Spectroscopic Evidence for Interstellar Grain Clumps in Meteoritic Inclusions...”

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Table of Contents: “... 3 -- 4 The Moon and the Planets -- 4.1 The Moon -- 4.2 Space Missions and Planetary Exploration -- 4.3 Inner Planets -- 4.4 The Asteroid Belt -- 4.5 Outer Planets -- 4.6 Problems on Chapter 4 -- 5 Comets, Meteorites and the origin of the Solar System...”

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Table of Contents: “...From the contents: The Kuiper Belt: Overviews -- Physical Characteristics of Trans-Neptunian Objects and Centaurs -- Detection of Thermal Emission from 1933 SC - First Results -- Physical Characteristics of Distant Comets -- Optical Observations of Trans...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- Circumstellar Disks and Outer Planet Formation -- Dynamical Interactions of Planets in The Circumstellar Disk -- The New Planetary Systems -- Extra-Solar Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Theory -- From The Interstellar Medium to Planetary Atmospheres Via Comets...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- 9. The Solar System Beyond Neptune -- 10. Dynamical Study of Trans-Neptunian Objects at the 2:3 Resonance -- 11. Superosculating Intermediate Orbits and their Application in the Problem of Investigation of the Motion of Asteroids and Comets -- 12. Tests...”

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Table of Contents: “...I: Gases and Grains in the Coma -- Composition of the Volatile Material in Halley’s Coma from In Situ Measurements -- Remote Observations of the Composition of Cometary Volatiles -- Cometary Deuterium -- Comet Halley’s Gas Composition and Extended...”

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Table of Contents: “...The Interstellar Medium: A General Introduction -- Laboratory Astrophysics in Solar System Studies — An Overview -- Ice in the Interstellar Medium -- Water Ice on Comets and Satellites -- Physical and Mechanical Properties of Lunar and Planetary Soils...”

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Table of Contents: “... aggregates in space -- Solids and volatiles in comets: From cometary nuclei to cometary atmospheres -- In situ measurements of evolved solids in space with emphasis on cometary particles -- Interstellar material in meteorites -- Interstellar Dust - Evidence from...”

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Table of Contents: “...1 Introduction How and where to start -- 2 Virtual Sky Watching Sky simulations, mapping and more... -- 3 Data Sources I Deep Sky Objects -- 4 Data Sources II The Solar System: Planets, Asteroids and Comets -- 5 Data Sources III Eclipses and Occultations...”

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Table of Contents: “... Comets -- 8.1 The Nature and Origin of Comets -- 8.2 Comet Discoveries -- 8.3 Observing Comets -- 8.4 Comets in Outburst -- 8.5 Ion-tail Disconnections -- 8.6 The Great Comets of 1996 and 1997 -- 9 Variable Stars -- 9.1 Eclipsing Binaries -- 9.2 Cataclysmic...”

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Table of Contents: “..., Cassegrains and Schmidt-Cassegrains -- Cassegrains -- Schmidt-Cassegrains -- Maksutovs -- Schiefspieglers -- 4 Binoculars -- Stands for Binoculars -- Image-Stabilised Binoculars -- 5 Eyepieces -- Magnification -- Practical Considerations -- Comet Seeking...”

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Table of Contents: “.... Comet Observations -- 16.1 Comet Halley and Comet Machholz -- 16.2 Comet Machholz (1988 XV) -- 16.3 Kreutz Family of Sungrazing Comets -- 16.4 Summary -- 17. Cosmic Studies -- 17.1 Hard X-Ray Sources -- 17.2 ?-Ray Bursts -- 17.3 ?-Ray Observations of Recent...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- Sputtering and desorption from icy surfaces -- II — Ices in the Primitive Solar Nebula and in Comets -- From interstellar dust to comets: distributed CO in comet Halley -- Trapping of gases in water ice and consequences to comets and the atmospheres of the inner...”

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Table of Contents: “.... Equivalence of Mass and Energy -- Exercises -- 14. The Great Dane -- 14.1. The Structure of the Atom -- 14.2. The Man from Copenhagen -- 14.3. Comets -- Exercises -- 15. Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice -- 15.1. The Many-Electron Atom -- 15.2. Atomic Spectra...”

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Table of Contents: “... Investigations -- 5 The Planets and Minor Solar System Objects -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn -- 5.3 Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and the Asteroids -- 6 Comets -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Cometary Orbits -- 6.3 The Structure of Comets...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- Comets -- Mars -- 5. Hubble’s Future and ItsSuccessors -- Hubble’s Second Decade -- The Next Two Shuttle Visits -- Hubble’s Legacy: The Data Archive -- Hubble’s Successors -- Europe as Partner -- 6. Appendix -- Want to See More? (World WideWeb Addresses...”

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