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| Author(s): | S. Kwok and S. Sandford (Eds) |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780521889827 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 497pp | |
| Price: | £68.00, $135.00 |
| Review Date: | 20 February 2009 |
| Review: | These are the 114 papers making up the Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, held in Hong Kong in 2008. There were three sessions. The first, Observations of Organic Compounds beyond the Solar System, focused on astronomical observations of gas-phase organic molecules in the interstellar medium and discussed the role played by organic molecules in the formation of diffuse interstellar bands. The second session, Organic Compounds within the Solar System, looked at observations of organic molecules and solids in circumstellar environments, spectral line surveys, and the observation of organic species in external galaxies. The last session, Laboratory Analogues of Organic Compounds in Space, described the analysis of organic materials in interplanetary dust particles, meteoroids, planetary surfaces, asteroids, and comets. |