Planets and planetary systems:
'Planets and Planetary Systems' provides a balanced introduction to the science of planets within our own solar system and those in other solar systems. This is an extremely fast moving field, and at present there are no suitable texts for undergraduates.
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Chichester [u.a.]
Wiley-Blackwell
2009
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| Summary: | 'Planets and Planetary Systems' provides a balanced introduction to the science of planets within our own solar system and those in other solar systems. This is an extremely fast moving field, and at present there are no suitable texts for undergraduates. |
| Physical Description: | VII, 185 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9780470016923 9780470016930 |
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Preface
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1.
Our planetary system
1
1.1
Diversity in the Solar System
1
1.2
General trends in the properties of the planets
9
1.3
Why are planets round?
12
1.4
When is a planet not a planet?
19
Exercises
21
2.
Other planetary systems
23
2.1
The discovery of exoplanets
23
2.2
The implications of the existence of other planetary systems
29
2.3
The future for exoplanet research
32
Exercises
36
Further Reading and Web Sites
37
3.
The surfaces of the planets
39
3.1
Rocks
39
3.2
Geological structures
43
3.3
Crater counting
50
3.4
Mercury and Venus
52
3.5
A tourisfs guide to Mars
55
3.6
Recent research on Mars
58
Exercises
64
Further Reading and Web Sites
64
4.
The interiors of the planets
65
4.1
What we do and don t know about planetary interiors
65
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CONTENTS
4.2
Mercury, Venus, Mars,
Saturn, Uranus
and Neptune
72
4.3
Why we know so much about the Earth
73
4.4
Why is the surface of the Earth such an interesting place?
78
Exercises
83
Further Reading
84
5.
The atmospheres of the planets
85
5.1
The atmosphere of the Earth
85
5.2
The other planets
93
5.3
The weather on the Earth and elsewhere
96
5.4
The origin and evolution of planetary atmospheres
99
Exercises
102
Further Reading and Web Sites
103
6.
The dynamics of planetary systems
105
6.1
Laws of planetary motion
105
6.2
Stable and unstable orbits
108
6.3
Tidal forces 111
Exercises
117
7.
The small objects in planetary systems
119
7.1
The evidence of the meteorites
119
7.2
The asteroid belt
123
7.3
Comets
126
7.4
The Oort Cloud
132
7.5
The Edgeworth-Kuiper belt
135
Exercises
139
Further Reading and Web Sites
139
8.
The origin of planetary systems
141
8.1
Laplace s big idea
141
8.2
The protoplanetary disc
144
8.3
From dust to planetesimals
147
8.4
From planetesimals to planetary embryos
149
8.5
From planetary embryos to planets
150
CONTENTS
Vii
8.6
Collisions, the Oort Cloud and planetary migration
152
Exercises
156
Further Reading
157
9.
Life in planetary systems
159
9.1
A short history of life on Earth
159
9.2
The evolution of the Solar System as a habitat
164
9.3
The possibility of life elsewhere
167
Exercises
171
Further Reading and Web Sites
171
Answers
173
Appendix A
175
A.I The epoch of planetary exploration
175
Appendix
В
179
B.I Derivation of Kepler s first and second laws
179
Index
183
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