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3.10 Mariner Mission to Encke 1980

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C. M. Yeates ,
K. T. Nock  and
R. L. Newburn
C. M. Yeates
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
K. T. Nock
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
R. L. Newburn
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

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The planetary program has always been conducted with the hope that the results would reveal great insight into the early period of solar system history and perhaps into the actual formation processes themselves. However, little knowledge has been gained of this very early stage for several reasons: The intense surface bombardment of all larger bodies, particularly in the inner solar system during that period; the subsequent differentiation of large bodies; and atmospheric effects and continued bombardment of the surface. The most promising approach to acquisition of knowledge pertaining to the early state of the solar system, its origin and evolution, therefore seems to be in the study of small bodies, e. g., comets and asteroids.

Type
3 Cometary Dust
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 31: Interplanetary Dust and Zodiacal Light , 1976 , pp. 346 - 355
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1976

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