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The Dusty universe : proceedings of a symposium honoring Fred Lawrence Whipple on his retirement as director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, October 17-19, 1973 / George B. Field and A. G. W. Cameron, editors.
LIBRA QB791 .D87
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004.
- Whipple, Fred L.
- Cosmic dust.
- Interstellar matter.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- x, 323 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Published for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory by Neale Watson Academic Publications, [1975]
- Contents:
- Field, G. B. and Cameron, A. G. W. Introduction.
- Cameron, A. G. W. The role of dust in cosmogony.
- Barshay, S. S. and Lewis, J. S. Chemistry of solar material.
- Salpeter, E. E. Dust in stellar atmospheres.
- Woolf, N. J. Circumstellar dust.
- Field, G. B. The composition of interstellar dust.
- Watson, W. D. Interaction of gas and dust in the interstellar medium
- Greenberg, J. M. and Hong, S. S. Effects of particle shape on volume and mass estimates of interstellar grains.
- Purcell, E. M. Interstellar grains as pinwheels.
- McCrosky, R. E. Cometary debris.
- Millman, P. M. Dust in the solar system.
- Hemenway, C. L. Collections of cosmic dust.
- Wood, J. A. The fine-grained structure of chondritic meteorites.
- Grossman, L. Dust in the solar nebula.
- Whipple, F. L. Comments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN:
- 0882020331
- OCLC:
- 1365213
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