LEADER 03401nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910824400003321 005 20240404152911.0 010 $a1-281-86763-2 010 $a9786611867638 010 $a1-86094-841-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000408807 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24683026 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000157270 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11151063 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157270 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10152103 035 $a(PQKB)10190524 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1681464 035 $a(WSP)0000P512 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1681464 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10255952 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL186763 035 $a(OCoLC)815742118 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000408807 100 $a20070821d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe formation of the solar system $etheories old and new /$fMichael Woolfson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon $cImperial College Press ;$aHackensack, NJ $cDistributed by World Scientific Pub. Co.$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-86094-824-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 305-311) and index. 327 $ach. 1. Theories come and theories go -- ch. 2. Measuring atoms and the universe -- ch. 3. Greek offerings -- ch. 4. The shoulders of giants -- ch. 5. A voyage of discovery to the solar system -- ch. 6. The problem to be solved -- ch. 7. The French connection -- ch. 8. American Catherine-Wheels -- ch. 9. British big tides -- ch. 10. Russian could capture-with British help -- ch. 11. German vortices-with a little French help -- ch. 12. McCrea's floccules -- ch. 13. What earlier theories indicate -- ch. 14. Disks around new stars -- ch. 15. Planets around other stars -- ch. 16. Disks around older stars -- ch. 17. What a theory should explain now -- ch. 18. The new Solar Nebula theory: the angular momentum problem -- ch. 19. Making planets top-down -- ch. 20. A bottom-up alternative -- ch. 21. Making planets faster -- ch. 22. Wandering planets -- ch. 23. Back to top-down -- ch. 24. This is the stuff that stars are made of -- ch. 25. Making dense cool clouds -- ch. 26. A star is born -- ch. 27. Close to the maddening crowd -- ch. 28. Close encounters of the stellar kind -- ch. 29. Ever decreasing circles -- ch. 30. How many planetary systems? -- ch. 31. Starting a family -- ch. 32. Tilting-but not as windmills -- ch. 33. The terrestrial planets raise problems! -- ch. 34. A British Bang theory: the earth and Venus -- ch. 35. Behold the wandering moon -- ch. 36. Fleet Mercury and warlike Mars -- ch. 37. Gods of the sea and the nether regions -- ch. 38. Bits and pieces -- ch. 39. Comets-the harbingers of doom! -- ch. 40. Making atoms with a biggish bang -- ch. 41. Is the capture theory valid? 330 $aMichael Woolfson traces the development of ideas about the origin of the Solar System from ancient times to 2007. 606 $aStars 607 $aSolar system$xOrigin 615 0$aStars. 676 $a523.2 700 $aWoolfson$b M. M$0605502 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824400003321 996 $aThe formation of the solar system$93980892 997 $aUNINA