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The Cambridge guide to the solar system
- Title
- The Cambridge guide to the solar system / Kenneth R. Lang.
- Author
- Lang, Kenneth R.
- Publication
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 452 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 29 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 430-437) and index.
- Contents
- Changing Views and Fundamental Concepts: Evolving perspectives - a historical prologue -- The new, close-up view from space -- The invisible buffer zone with space - atmospheres, magnetospheres and the solar wind -- The Inner System - Rocky Worlds: Third rock from the Sun - restless Earth -- The Moon: stepping stone to the planets -- Mercury: a dense battered world -- Venus: the veiled planet -- Mars: the red planet -- The Giant Planets, Their Satellites and Their Rings - Worlds of Liquid, Ice and Gas: Jupiter: a giant primitive planet -- Saturn: lord of the rings -- Uranus and Neptune -- Remnants of Creation - Small Worlds in the Solar System: Comets -- Asteroids and meteorites -- Colliding worlds.
- Call Number
- JSF 12-307
- ISBN
- 0521813069 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2002031562
- OCLC
- 50511053
- Author
- Lang, Kenneth R.
- Title
- The Cambridge guide to the solar system / Kenneth R. Lang.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 430-437) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSF 12-307