Astromineralogy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Henning, Thomas. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 815
• Subjects: Geography.; Mineralogy.; Astrophysics.; Earth Sciences.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13259-9

Astromineralogy deals with the science of gathering mineralogical information from the astronomical spectroscopy of asteroids, comets and dust in the circumstellar environments in general. This field has received a tremendous boost with the reliable identification of minerals by the Infrared Space O...

Table of Contents:

• From Dust Astrophysics Towards Dust Mineralogy-A Historical Review
• Formation and Evolution of Minerals in Accretion Disks and Stellar Outflows
• The Mineralogy of Interstellar and Circumstellar Dust in Galaxies
• The Mineralogy of Cometary Dust
• The In-situ Study of Solid Particles
• The Astromineralogy of Interplanetary Dust Particles
• The Most Primitive Material in Meteorites
• Laboratory Astrophysics of Cosmic Dust Analogues.