The formation of the solar system : theories old and new / / Michael Woolfson
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| Autore: |
Woolfson M. M
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| Titolo: |
The formation of the solar system : theories old and new / / Michael Woolfson
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Imperial College Press |
| Hackensack, NJ, : Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., c2007 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 523.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Stars |
| Soggetto geografico: | Solar system Origin |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-311) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ch. 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? |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Michael Woolfson traces the development of ideas about the origin of the Solar System from ancient times to 2007. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The formation of the solar system |
| ISBN: | 1-281-86763-2 |
| 9786611867638 | |
| 1-86094-841-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824400003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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