An edition of The Smart Guide To The Solar System
(2012)
The smart guide to the solar system
Second edition.
by Philip Seldon
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Briefly outlines the history of astronomy and space exploration, recounts the origins of our solar system, and summarizes current knowledge about the sun, moon, stars, planets and their relationship to the earth.
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Table of Contents
Part one: Prologue. Our solar system ; From Aristotle to Newton ; From the Age of Enlightenment to the Space Age
Part two: Terrestrial bodies. Mercury: speeding around the sun ; Venus: the runaway greenhouse ; Earth: the original Goldilocks planet ; The moon: in Earth's gravity and lighting the night sky ; Mars: the Red Planet beckons
Part three: Gas giants. Jupiter: king of the solar system ; Jupiter's Galilean moons: like a mini-solar system ; Jupiter's numerous rings and moons ; Saturn: spectacular lord of the rings ; Saturn's majestic, magnificent rings ; Saturn's Titan: the moon with smog and more smog ; Saturn's Enceladus: moon of many geysers ; Saturn's moons: rivaling Jupiter
Part four: Cold and distant. Uranus: the blue-green planet ; Neptune: outer ice giant ; Pluto and Charon: from planet to dwarf planet ; Dwarf planets: Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and Ceres
Part five: Eclectic objects. Comets: bright "hairy stars" and their tails ; Faint asteroids, flashing meteors ; Exoplanets: planets beyond our solar system
Part six: The sun. Our sun: shining at the center ; Readings and web references.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-312) and index.
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