The Solar System

by Encrenaz, Thérèse

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Title Statements

Full title :The Solar System / by Thérèse Encrenaz, Jean-Pierre Bibring, Michel Blanc, Maria-Antonietta Barucci, Francoise Roques, Philippe Zarka.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2004.
Edition:Third edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Place of Publication:Berlin, Heidelberg
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 514 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783662104033, 3662104032
DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-10403-3
oclc:ocn851372106
LC Classification:QB495-500.269
Dewey Decimal:500.5

From the contents: General Features of the Solar System -- The Solar System in the Universe -- Methods of Studying the Solar System -- The Formation of the Solar System -- The Interaction of Solar-System Objects with the Interplanetary Medium -- The Terrestrial Planets and Their Satellites -- The Asteroids -- The Giant Planets -- Titan -- Solar-System Bodies Without Dense Atmospheres -- Comets -- New Frontiers -- Interplanetary Grains, Micrometeorites and Meteorites -- New Planetary Systems -- The Search for Life in the Universe.