Index 943
Shoemaker-Levy 9, 563
short-period, 289
solar wind interactions, 524–525
space missions to, 557–560
studies, history of, 560–561
surface layer stratification, 562
tail, 567–570
Bessel-Bredichin theory, 567
composition, 561
Hale-Bopp comet, 567
Tempel 1, 288, 558
Tempel-Tuttle, 65
thermal emission, 705–707
Well’s, 64
Wild 2, 288, 558, 559, 564, 565
X-ray emissions, 637, 652, 654–655
zodiacal dust clouds, 18
comets, nucleus
Borrelly’s comet, images, 559
comet source, 557
composition, 561–562
diameter average, 559
Halley’s comet, images, 559
OPR ratio, 571
physics of, 561–565
rotation rates, 562–563
source of, 557
structure, 563
Whipple calculation model, 561
Wild 2 comet, images, 559
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory
(CGRO), 92, 640–641
continuously habitable zones (CHZ), 867
Copernicus, heliocentric universe theory,
55–56
Copernicus crater (Moon), 237
Cordelia, satellite, Uranus, 508
Cordillera mountains, Moon, 816
core
Earth, 208–209
Moon, 236
coronagraph, 892
coronal mass ejections (CMEs)
fast, 107
geomagnetic storms, 213
interplanetary effects, 213
magnetic reconnection with magnetic
“legs,” 109
numerical simulation, 222
origination, 106
shocks, 218
SOHOspacecraft forecasting, 224
solar activity phenomenon, 76
sunspots, 217
triggering processes, 107
corotating interaction regions (CIRs),
105
high-pressure, 105
meridional tilts, 106
Cosmic Background Experiment
(COBE) space-based telescope
thermal infrared operational, 684
cosmic ray exposure (CRE), 255,
270–271, 278
cosmic rays
galactic, 100, 766
intensity variation, 100
radioactive and stable nuclides, 278
showers, modeling, 769
solar, 255
Coulomb collisions, 531
counting rates, neutrons
epithermal, orthographic projections,
785
MacMurdo Station, 766, 768
models, 771–772
craters
Baranamtarra, Venus, 153
creation of, 298
Dione satellite, Saturn, 377
Europa
transient, 442
Tyre, 442, 443
Mars
Gusev Crater, 301, 335
landing sites, 341–342
Mercury, 117, 123–125, 130, 834
Mimas, Saturn satellite, 375
Moon, 230, 236–239, 240
Mozamba, Triton, 376
Odysseus, Saturn, 376
Procellarum Basin, 236
South Pole-Aitken Basin (Moon), 231,
236
Zelinsky, 240
Cretaceous-Tertiary Event, 285
Critchfield, Charles, 65
Cruikshank, Dale, 421
crust
Earth, 206
dynamic, 194
plates, 190, 829
Moon, Earth, 234–235, 245–246
evolution, 824
cryovolcanism
Ganymede/Callisto, 462
smooth terrain, 464
cycloidal ridges, Europa, 436–437, 438
cyclotron maser emissions, 707–709dark spots, Castalia Macular, Europa
dark, 443
DARWIN mission (ESA), 892
Davis, Raymond, Jr., 74
Deep Impactmissions, NASA, 286
Deep Space 1mission
flyby, Borrelly’s comet, 558, 884
Deep Space Network (DSN), 423Delaunay, Charles, 61
delay-Doppler measurements
dynamical properties, 744–745
images
Mercury, 753
4179 Toutaris, 736
Venus, 753
Delisle, Joseph, 59
Dellinger, Howard, 66
Demos satellite, Mars, 373–374
density
of asteroids, 352–353
Ganymede satellite, 450–451
Io satellite, 835
Moon, 229
of Pluto/Charon, 545–546
deserts, meteorites, 252
Despina satellite, Neptune, 381
detection
dust
Giacobini-Zinner comet, 630
Grigg-Skjellerup comet, 630
Halley’s comet, 630
solar system, outer, 630
gamma rays, 771–775
neutrons, 771–775
radiation detectors, 771–773
scintillators, 773
p-mode, helioseismology, 76
detector array advances, telescopes,
727–729
deuterated hydrogen, giant planets, 386
differentiated asteroids, volcanic
features, 836–837
Diffuse Infrared Background
Experiment (DIRBE), 684
diffusive shock acceleration model, solar
flares, 91
dinosaurs, asteroid destruction of, 285
Dione satellite, Saturn, 375–378
dipole tilts, planetary, 528
Discovery Channel Telescope, 732
diurnal stressing, Europa, 434–435
DLR Institute of Space Sense
Technology and Planetary
Exploration, Germany, 290
Donati, Giovanni, 64
Doppler effect
p-mode oscillations, 74
stellar radial velocity measurement,
888
Doppler frequency measurements,
741–742
Drake, Frank, 867
Duncan, Martin, 595, 605
Dungey, J. W., 219, 220
dust bands
in Asteroid Belt, 685
Karin/Veritas families, 687