Icy Bodies of the Solar System (IAU S263) (Hardcover)

Preface; Overview; 1. The icy planetesimals and accretion processes in the protoplanetary disk; 2. Dynamical aspects of icy bodies. The Oort cloud; 3. Icy satellites of the outer planets; 4. Icy dwarf planets and TNOs; 5. Transition objects; 6. Physical processes in comets; 7. Space missions to icy bodies: past, present and future; Author index; Object index; Subject index.