Cometary Science After Hale-Bopp Proceedings of Iau Colloquium 186 21-25 January 2002, Tenerife, Spain

Comet Hale-Bopp defines a milestone event for cometary science: it is the first "really big" comet observed with modern equipment on the ground and from space and due to that; it is considered the new reference object in cometary sciences.At the beginning of a new era in spacecraft exploration of comets and five years after Hale-Bopp's perihelion passage these proceedings of invited and contributed papers for IAU Colloquium 186 "Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp" review the state-of-the-art knowledge on comets, the icy, dusty and most primordial left-overs of the formation disk of our own solar system.Böhnhardt, Hermann is the author of 'Cometary Science After Hale-Bopp Proceedings of Iau Colloquium 186 21-25 January 2002, Tenerife, Spain' with ISBN 9781402009785 and ISBN 140200978X.