The Solar System

Thérèse Encrenaz

ISBN 10: 3540002413 / ISBN 13: 9783540002413

Editore: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jan 2004, 2004

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Neuware -In this third corrected and revised edition students and lecturers in astronomy and planetary science as well as planet observers will find a mine of up-to-date information on the solar system and its interaction with the interplanetary medium, its various objects, comparative planetology, discussion of questions for further research and future space exploration.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 532 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: The Solar System
• Editore: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jan 2004
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3540002413
• ISBN 13: 9783540002413
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Edizione: terza edizione
• Condizione: Neu

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In this third corrected and revised edition students and lecturers in astronomy and planetary science as well as planet observers will find a mine of up-to-date information on the solar system and its interaction with the interplanetary medium, its various objects, comparative planetology, discussion of questions for further research and future space exploration.

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This text treats our knowledge of the solar system from an astrophysical point of view. Part 1 deals with the formation of the solar system and its interaction with the interplanetary medium. Part 2 presents its various objects: planets and satellites, asteroids, comets, trans-neptunian objects and interplanetary dust. The final sections on extrasolar planetary systems and on the search for life in the Universe round off an introduction to a field that has grown dramatically following the space missions of the last twenty years.

Over the last decade many exciting observations have helped to reshape our understanding of the solar system and planetary science. In the third corrected and revised edition of this classic on the astrophysics of our solar system, students and lecturers in astronomy and planetary science as well as planet observers will find a mine of up-to-date information.