Jack J. Lissauer, Imke de Pater

Fundamental Planetary Science

Physics, Chemistry and Habitability

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Produktbeschreibung

A quantitative introduction to the Solar System for advanced undergraduates, this textbook explains the physical, chemical and geological processes that govern the properties of planets. This updated edition contains the latest data, new references and planetary images and an extensively rewritten chapter on current research on exoplanets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 650
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 189mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1420g
• ISBN-13: 9781108411981
• ISBN-10: 1108411983
• Artikelnr.: 55396776

Autorenporträt

Jack J. Lissauer is a Space Scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, and a consulting professor at Stanford University, California. His primary research interests are the formation of planetary systems, detection of extrasolar planets, planetary dynamics and chaos, planetary ring systems, and circumstellar/protoplanetary disks. He is lead discoverer of the six-planet Kepler-11 system, co-discoverer of the first four planets found to orbit about faint M dwarf stars, and co-discoverer of two broad tenuous dust rings and two small inner moons orbiting the planet Uranus.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Dynamics; 3. Physics and astrophysics; 4. Solar heating and energy transport; 5. Planetary atmospheres; 6. Surfaces and interiors; 7. Sun, solar wind and magnetic fields; 8. Giant planets; 9. Terrestrial planets and the moon; 10. Planetary satellites; 11. Meteorites; 12. Minor planets and comets; 13. Planetary rings; 14. Extrasolar planets; 15. Planet formation; 16. Planets and life; Index.