Containing more than 450 entries by some 200 eminent contributors from all over the world, the Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences is the first book to present this information in an authoritative yet approachable way. This encyclopedia deals with the atmospheres, surfaces and interiors of the planets and moons, and with the interplanetary environment of plasma fields, as well as with asteroids and meteorites. Processes such as accretion, differentiation, thermal evolution and impact cratering form another category of entries. Remote sensing techniques employed in investigation and exploration,…mehr
Containing more than 450 entries by some 200 eminent contributors from all over the world, the Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences is the first book to present this information in an authoritative yet approachable way. This encyclopedia deals with the atmospheres, surfaces and interiors of the planets and moons, and with the interplanetary environment of plasma fields, as well as with asteroids and meteorites. Processes such as accretion, differentiation, thermal evolution and impact cratering form another category of entries. Remote sensing techniques employed in investigation and exploration, such as magnetometry, photometry, and spectroscopy are described in separate articles. In addition the Encyclopedia chronicles the history of planetary science, including biographies of pioneering scientists, and detailed descriptions of all major lunar and planetary missions and programs. The Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences is superbly illustrated throughout with over 450 line drawings,180 black and white photographs, and 63 colour illustrations. It will be a key reference source for planetary scientists, astronomers, and workers in related disciplines such as geophysics, geology and the atmospheric sciences. Included in this book is a PC and Mac compatible CD-ROM containing over 200 relevant planetary and related images available from NASA. This CD-ROM has been specially compiled for the Encyclopedia by The United States National Space Science Data Center.
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Autorenporträt
James H. Shirley has written many scientific publications in the fields of lunar and terrestrial seismology, solar physics, and atmospheric sciences. He is a member of the Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer Science team of the Galileo Mission to Jupiter, based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Professor Rhodes W. Fairbridge is emeritus Professor of Geology at Columbia University and is now visiting scientist at the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (NASA, NY). He has edited more that two dozen encyclopedias and authored more than three-hundred scientific publications.
Inhaltsangabe
List of contributors. Preface. Absorption, absorption spectrum. Accretion. Achondrite meteorites. Adams, John Couch (1819-1892). Aerosol. Airglow. Albedo. Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gosta (1908-1995), and wave. Amor object. Angular momentum. Angular momentum cycle in planet Earth. Antarctic meteorites. Antoniadi, Eugenios (1870-1944). Aphelion. Apollo missions; object. Apsis, apsides. Archeoastronomy. Aristarchus (c. 310-230 BC). Asteroid: compositional structure and taxonomy; families; lightcurve; photometry; resonance; thermal infrared studies. Asthenosphere. Astrogeology. Astrometric observation. Astronomical constants; unit. Aten object. Atmosphere. Atmospheric thermal structure. Aurora; historical record; planetary. Barnard, Edward Emerson (1857-1923). Barycenter. Basalt. Basaltic achondrite meteorites. Biosphere. Blackbody radiation. Bradley, James (1693-1762). Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601). Breccia. Brouwer, Dirk (1902-1966). Brückner cycle. Callisto. Campbell, William Wallace (1862-1938). Capture mechanisms. Carbon, carbon dioxide. Carbonaceous chondrite. Carrington, Richard Christopher (1826-1875). Cartography. Cassini, Jean-Dominique (1625-1712), and Cassini's laws. Cassini mission. Celestial mechanics. Center of mass, gravity and inertia. Ceres. Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder (1843-1928); Chamberlin-Moulton planetesimal hypothesis. Chandler wobble. Chaotic dynamics in the solar system. Charge-coupled device. Charged particle observation. Charon. Chemical element. Chiron. Chondrites, ordinary. Chronology: meteorite. Clementine mission. Cold accretion theory. Collisions. Color. Comet: dynamics; historical perspective; impacts on Earth; impacts on Jupiter; observation; origin and evolution; structure and composition. Commensurability. Coordinate systems. Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543). Core, terrestrial planetary. Coriolis force, geostrophic motion. Corona (Venus). Coronal mass ejections. Corpuscular radiation. Cosmic rays. Cosmic ray exposure ages. Cosmochemistry. Crater. Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary. Croll, James (1821-1890). Crust. Cyclone, anticyclone. Darwin, George Howard (1845-1912). Dating methods. Dawes, William Rutter (1799-1868). Deep Space Network. Deimos. Denning, William Frederick (1848-1931). Determinism. Differentiation. Diurnal variation. Dome. Dust. Dynamo theory. Early bombardment. Earth: atmosphere; geology, tectonics and seismicity; magnetic field and magnetosphere; Observing System; rotation; rotational history. Earth-Moon system: dynamics; origin. Eccentric dipole. Eccentricity. Eclipse. Ecliptic. Ejecta. Electromagnetic radiation. Ellipsoid. Emissivity. Enceladus. Encke, Johann Franz (1791-1865). Enstatite meteorites. Eolian transport. Ephemeris. Eratosthenes (276-195 BC). Erosion. Eucrite meteorites. Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783), and motion. Europa. European Space Agency. Exosphere. Flood basalt. Forbush: decrease; effect. Fracture, fault. Fraunhofer line. Galactic cycle. Galilean satellites. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Galileo mission. Ganymede. Gaspra. Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). Geoid. Geomagnetic polarity reversals and the geological record. Geomagnetic storm. Gilbert, William (1540-1603). Giotto mission. Global Positioning System. Goddard, Robert Hutchings (1882-1945). Gravimetry. Gravitation. Gravity-assist navigation. Gravity fields of the terrestrial planets. Greenhouse effect. Hadley circulation. Hale, George Ellery (1868-1938), and cycle. Hall, Asaph (1829-1907). Halley, Edmond (1656-1742), and comet. Heliosphere. Herschel, William (1738-1822). Hilda asteroids. Hipparchus of Nicaea (190-120 BC). History of planetary science: I: pre-space age; II: space age. Hohmann transfer orbit. Hot spot tectonics. Huygens, Christian (1629-1695). Huygens Titan atmospheric probe. Hydrosphere. Ice age. Ida. Igneous rock. Imaging science. Impact cratering. Inertia, inertial frame. Infrared radiation. Infrared spectroscope. Insolation. International Astronomical Union. Interplanetary magnetic field.
