By C. de Bergh (auth.), Jeremy R. Walsh, Ivan J. Danziger (eds.)
ESO's new and intriguing telescope, the VTL in Chile, will surely convey a number of recent leads to optical astronomy for the years yet to come. This workshop surveys a wide number of attainable observations and the wanted instrumentation. it truly is an exhilarating review of entrance learn in astronomy hardly released prior to. The publication covers the total gamut of optical-IR astronomy from the sun process, look for planets in within reach stars, physics of Galactic stars and clusters, Galactic constitution, constitution of close by galaxies, AGN and quasars, clusters of galaxies, to giant constitution and cosmology. in addition it summarizes the 2 panel discussions.
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For asteroids, there is a need to study fainter objects for classification (small asteroids in the outer edge of the main belt, or further away; magnitudes higher than 16). Information on their shape can be retrieved from their photometric light-curves. Higher sensitivity and higher spatial resolutions in the infrared and in the visible are required to study the mineralogy and surface properties of asteroids or small satellites. High spatial resolution imaging studies are now being made in the visible for some asteroids with the HST.
Interstellar travel, at velocities c/30 to c/lO, seem not impossible for Human civilisation in a few centuries. Hence, extra-solar civilisations, born (much) earlier than ours, should have travelled to us and possibly colonised us. One or several factors in the Drake equation can be much lower than first guessed and produce bottlenecks. Then, it is of the highest interest to measure those factors that are accessible to our present and near-future technology. This is described further as the" step by step" approach .
Are they similar to other minor bodies, in particular to the short-period comets (that are supposed to originate in the Kuiper Belt) ? Atmosphere/coma/activity: While (2060) Chiron and some of the distant comets have a coma, most of the known distant, minor objects apparently have not. Is this because of compositional differences or is it due to their recent orbital histories? Will major outbursts be observed? If so, at which distances - this may hint at the causes and help to identify the responsible constituents.