Background of modern comet theory
Background of modern comet theory
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现代彗星理论背景
作者：
F. Whipple
现代人对彗星的理解可以追溯到20世纪50年代早期发表的三个重要观点：围绕太阳的彗星云，脏冰彗星核，以及解释彗星尾巴的“太阳风”。从这三个概念出发，过去25年的观测解释了与彗星有关的所有神秘和有时壮观的现象。
The modern understanding of comets dates from the publication in the early 1950s of three crucial ideas: that of a comet cloud around the Sun, that of the dirty-ice comet nucleus, and that of the “solar wind” to explain the comet tail. Starting from those three ideas, the observations of the past 25 years have led to the explanation of all the mysterious and sometimes spectacular phenomena associated with comets.