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Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1993 - Proceedings of the 160th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Belgirate, Italy, June 14-18, 1993 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
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Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 1993 - Proceedings of the 160th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Held in Belgirate, Italy, June 14-18, 1993 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
Series: International Astronomical Union Symposia, 160
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THE MEETING The IAU Symposium 160 ASTEROIDS COMETS METEORS 1999 has
been held at Villa Carlotta in Belgirate, on the shore of Lago
Maggiore (Italy), from June 14 to June 18, 1993. It has been
organized by the Astronomical Observatory of Torino and by the
Lunar and Planetary Institute of Houston. It has been a very large
meeting, with 323 registered participants from 38 countries. The
scientific program included 29 invited reviews, 106 oral
communications, and 215 posters. The subjects covered included all
the aspects of the studies of the minor bodies of the solar system,
including asteroids, comets, meteors, meteorites, interplanetary
dust, with special focus on the interrelationships between these.
The meeting was structured as follows. 5 morning plenary sessions
have been devoted to invited reviews on: (1) search programs (2)
populations of small bodies (3) dynamics (4) physical observations
and modelling (5) origin and evolution. Two afternoon plenary
sessions have been devoted to space missions to small bodies and to
interrelationships between the different populations. The afternoon
parallel sessions have been devoted to: dynamics of comets;
Toutatis, Ida, Gaspra; physical processes in cometary comae and
tails; meteorites; the cosmogonic message from cometary nuclei;
physics of asteroids; the interplanetary dust complex; comet
nuclei; meteors; composition and material properties of comets;
dynamics of asteroids.
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