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245 14 $aThe planetary system /$cDavid Morrison, Tobias Owen.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aReading, Mass. :$bAddison-Wesley,$c℗♭1996.
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart 1. Find our place in space. Watching the sky : sun, moon, and stars ; Watching the sky : the planets ; The slow growth of reason ; Newton and the law of gravitation ; Escaping from Earth ; The system revealed ; Quantitative supplement : Kepler's laws in mathematical form -- Part 2. An ordinary star. The sun as a star ; Building blocks : atoms and isotopes ; Composition of the sun ; The sun's energy ; Life history of the sun ; Solar activity ; Quantitative supplement : radiation laws -- Part 3. Getting to know our neighbors. Basic properties : mass, size, and density ; Chemistry of the planets ; Origin and classification of rocks ; Planetary atmospheres ; Studying matter from a distance ; Exploring the planetary system -- Part 4. Meteorites : remnants of creation. The solar nebula ; Classification of meteorites ; Ages of meteorites and other rocks ; Differentiated meteorites ; Meterorite parent bodies ; Quantitative supplement : radioactive age dating -- Part 5. Asteroids : building blocks of the inner planets. Discovery of the asteroids ; Main belt asteroids ; Vesta : a volcanic asteroid ; Asteroids far and near ; Asteroids close up ; Quantitative supplement : asteroids collisions -- Part 6. Comets : messengers from the cold. Comets through history ; The comet's atmosphere ; The cometary nucleus ; Comet dust ; Origin and evolution of comets.; Quantitative supplement : albedos and temperatures.
505 8 $aPart 7. The moon : our ancient neighbor. The face of the moon ; Expeditions to the moon ; Impact cratering ; Dating cratered worlds ; Lunar catastrophism ; Lunar volcanism ; The surface of the moon ; Quantitative supplement : impact energies -- Part 8. Moon and Mercury : strange relatives. An elusive panet ; The rotation of Mercury ; Tides and the spin of planets ; The face of Mercury ; Interiors of the moon and Mercury ; Histories of the moon and Mercury ; Origin of the moon and Mercury ; Quantitative supplement : radar and the doppler effect ; Quantitative supplement : synodic period summary -- Part 9. The Earth : our home planet. Earth as a planet ; Journey to the center of the Earth ; The changing face of the Earth ; Plate tectonics : a unifying hypothesis ; Ocean and atmosphere ; Upper atmosphere and magnetosphere ; Climate and weather ; Impacts and evolution -- Part 10. Venus : Earth's exotic twin. Unveiling the goddess of beauty ; The atmosphere and the greenhouse effect ; Weather on Venus ; The hidden landscape ; Craters and tectonics ; Volcanoes on Venus ; On the searing surface ; Quantitative supplement : the greenhouse effect.
505 8 $aPart 11. Mars : the planet most like Earth. A century off changing perceptions ; Global perspective ; View from the surface ; Craters and chronology ; Volcanoes and tectionic features ; Mysteries of the martian channels ; The polar regions ; The martian atmosphere -- Part 12. Life, planets, and atmospheres. Life on Earth ; Life and the evolution of the atmosphere ; Extrapolating from Earth to Mars ; The search for life on Mars ; Goldilocks and the three planets ; Quantitative supplement : atmospheric escape -- Part 13. Jupiter and Saturn : the biggest giants. The pioneer and voyager missions ; Internal structure : journeys to the centers of giant planets ; Atmospheric composition and structure ; Weather and climate ; Clouds, colors, and chemistry ; Magnetospheres and radio broadcasts ; Quantitative supplement : building a giant planet ; The Galileo Jupiter probe : preliminary results -- Part 14. In deep freeze : planets we cannot see. Discoveries of the outer planets ; Three distant worlds ; Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune ; Climate, clouds, and weather ; Magnetospheres ; Quantitative supplement : discovering a planet.
505 8 $aPart 15. Worlds of fire and ice : the large satellites of Jupiter. Satellite systems ; Impact craters and surface ages ; Callisto and Ganymede : the large Galileans ; Europa and Io : the active Galileans ; Volcanoes of Io ; Comparing the large satellites -- Part 16. Titan, Triton, and Pluto : icy objects with atmospheres. Titan : a riddle wrapped in an enigma ; Triton : approaching absolute zero ; Pluto and it's moon : a most unusual system ; Quantitative supplement : vapor atomospheres -- Part 17. Small satellites. The satelite system of Saturn ; Enceladus and Iapetus : two puzzling satellites ; The satellite system of Uranus ; The smallest Sattelites ; Quantitative supplement : searching for new satellites -- Part 18. Planetary rings. Rings of Jupiter ; Rings of Saturn ; Rings of Uranus ; Rings of Neptune ; Ring dynamics and satellite-ring interactions ; Origin of ring systems ; Quantitative supplement : the tidal stability limit -- Part 19. The origin of planets. Basic properties of the planetary system ; The life of a star ; The problem of angular momentum ; Evolution of the disk : condensation, aggregation, accretion, and dissipation ; Small bodies and the importance of impacts ; Giant planets and their satellite and ring systems ; The search for other planetary systems ; Quantitative supplement : angular momentum in the solar Nebula -- Appendix: Units and exponential notation -- Glossary.
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