Planetary Sciences

Imke de Pater, Jack J. Lissauer

Cambridge University Press

2001

528 páginas

17h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780521482196

Planetary Sciences presents a comprehensive coverage of this fascinating and expanding field at a level appropriate for graduate students and researchers in the physical sciences. The book explains the wide variety of physical, chemical and geological processes that govern the motions and properties of planets. Observations of the planets, moons, asteroids, comets and planetary rings in our Solar System, as well as extrasolar planets, are described, and the process of planetary formation is discussed.