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Encyclopedia of the solar system

Title
Encyclopedia of the solar system / edited by Paul R. Weissman, Lucy-Ann McFadden, Torrence V. Johnson.
Publication
San Diego : Academic Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Weissman, Paul Robert, 1947-
  • McFadden, Lucy-Ann Adams.
  • Johnson, T. V. (Torrence V.)
Description
xviii, 992 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • The Solar System and Its Place in the Galaxy / Paul R. Weissman -- The Origin of the Solar System / Patrick M. Cassen and Dorothy S. Woolum -- The Sun / Jack B. Zirker -- The Solar Wind / John T. Gosling -- Mercury / Robert G. Strom -- Venus: Atmosphere / Donald M. Hunten -- Venus: Surface and Interior / James W. Head and Alexander Basilevski -- Earth as a Planet: Atmosphere and Oceans / Timothy E. Dowling -- Earth as a Planet: Surface and Interior / David C. Pieri and Adam M. Dziewonski -- The Moon / Stuart Ross Taylor -- Mars: Atmosphere and Volatile History / Fraser P. Fanale -- Mars: Surface and Interior / Michael H. Carr -- Phobos and Deimos / Peter C. Thomas -- Atmospheres of the Giant Planets / Robert A. West -- Interiors of the Giant Planets / Mark Scott Marley -- Io / Dennis Matson and Diana Blaney -- Titan / Athena Coustenis and Ralph Lorenz -- Triton / William B. McKinnon and Randolph L. Kirk -- Outer Planet Icy Satellites / Bonnie J. Buratti --
  • Planetary Rings / Carolyn C. Porco -- Planetary Magnetospheres / Margaret Kivelson and Fran Bagenal -- Pluto and Charon / S. Alan Stern and Roger V. Yelle -- Physics and Chemistry of Comets / Daniel C. Boice and Walter Huebner -- Cometary Dynamics / Julio A. Fernandez -- The Kuiper Belt / Harold F. Levison and Paul R. Weissman -- Asteroids / Daniel T. Britt and Larry A. Lebofsky -- Near-Earth Asteroids / Lucy-Ann McFadden -- Meteorites / Michael E. Lipschutz and Ludolf Schultz -- Interplanetary Dust and the Zodiacal Cloud / Eberhard Grun -- The Solar System at Ultraviolet Wavelengths / Robert M. Nelson and Deborah L. Domingue -- Infrared Views of the Solar System from Space / Mark V. Sykes -- The Solar System at Radio Wavelengths / Imke de Pater -- Planetary Radar / Steven Ostro -- Solar System Dynamics / Martin J. Duncan and Jack J. Lissauer -- Chaotic Motion in the Solar System / Carl D. Murray -- Planetary Impacts / Richard A. F. Grieve and Mark J. Cintala --
  • Planetary Volcanism / Lionel Wilson -- Planets and the Origin of Life / Christopher P. McKay and Wanda L. Davis -- Planetary Exploration Missions / Louis Friedman and Robert Kraemer -- Extra-Solar Planets: Searching for Other Planetary Systems / David C. Black.
ISBN
0122268059 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
98084429
OCLC
ocm39908966
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries