Space missions to comets : a conference

Title
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. [Washington] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch, 1979.
Author
  1. Symposium on Space Missions to Comets (1977 : Goddard Space Flight Center)

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Additional authors
  1. Neugebauer, Marcia
  2. Yeomans, Donald K.
  3. Brandt, John C.
  4. Hobbs, R. W.
  5. United States. Office of Space Science, sponsor.
Description
  1. v, 226 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
Series statement
  1. NASA conference publication ; 2089
Uniform title
  1. NASA conference publication ; 2089.
Subject
  1. Comets > Congresses
  2. Comets
  3. Exploration of outer space
  4. COMETS
  5. ORBITS
  6. SPACE EXPLORATION
  7. CONFERENCES
  8. Halley's comet > Congresses
  9. Outer space > Exploration > Congresses
  10. Outer space
  11. Solar system > Halley's comet
  12. HALLEY'S COMET
Genre/Form
  1. Congress
  2. proceedings (reports)
  3. Conference papers and proceedings
  4. Conference papers and proceedings.
  5. Actes de congrè€s.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographies.