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

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Corporate Authors: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Group Author: Whipple Fred Lawrence, 1906-; Field George B., 1929-; Cameron A. G. W.; (Alastair Graham Walter), 1925-
Published: Published for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory by Neale Watson Academic Publications,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: [1975]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: x, 323 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 0882020331
Index Number: P14
CLC: P14-532
Call Number: P14-53/S989/1973/
Contents: Includes bibliographies and index.
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.