Title
Asteroids And Comets
Keywords
Asteroids; Asteroids; Asteroids; Asteroids; Asteroids; Comets; Comets; Comets; Comets; Comets
Abstract
Asteroids and comets are remnants from the era of solar system formation over 4.5 billion years ago and therefore allow us to address two fundamental questions in astronomy: what was the nature of our protoplanetary disk, and how did the process of planetary accretion occur? The objects we see today have suffered many geophysically relevant processes in the intervening eons that have altered their surfaces, interiors, and compositions. In this chapter, we review our understanding of the origins and evolution of these bodies, discuss the wealth of science returned from spacecraft missions, and motivate important questions to be addressed in the future.
Publication Date
1-1-2015
Publication Title
Treatise on Geophysics: Second Edition
Volume
10
Number of Pages
487-528
Document Type
Article; Book Chapter
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-53802-4.00184-6
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
85027299514 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85027299514
STARS Citation
Fernández, Y. R.; Li, J. Y.; Howell, E. S.; and Woodney, L. M., "Asteroids And Comets" (2015). Scopus Export 2015-2019. 1412.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2015/1412