Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of focus elements
- List of tables
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Principal units
- Part 1 Changing views and fundamental concepts
- Part 2 The inner solar system: rocky worlds
- Part 3 The giant planets, their satellites and their rings: worlds of liquid, ice and gas
- Part 4 Remnants of creation: small worlds in the solar system
- Part 5 Origin of the solar system and extrasolar planets
- Author index
- Subject index
Subject index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of focus elements
- List of tables
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Principal units
- Part 1 Changing views and fundamental concepts
- Part 2 The inner solar system: rocky worlds
- Part 3 The giant planets, their satellites and their rings: worlds of liquid, ice and gas
- Part 4 Remnants of creation: small worlds in the solar system
- Part 5 Origin of the solar system and extrasolar planets
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System , pp. 463 - 475Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011