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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 / George B. Field and A. G. W. Cameron, editors. - x, 323 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0882020331

LCCN: 75015576 //r863

Subjects--Personal Names:
Whipple, Fred Lawrence, 1906-

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cosmic dust.
Interstellar matter.

LC Class. No.: QB791 / .D87

Dewey Class. No.: 523.1/12