Encyclopedia of the Solar System 2nd ed

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2 Encyclopedia of the Solar System use of advanced computer codes and high-speed, dedicated computers. Serendipity has also play ...

The Solar System and Its Place in the Galaxy 3 In the 1980s, dynamical calculations suggested the exis- tence of a belt of many ...

4 Encyclopedia of the Solar System TABLE 1 Orbits of the Planets and Dwarf Planetsa Period Name Semimajor Axis (AU) Eccentricity ...

The Solar System and Its Place in the Galaxy 5 exponentially, then the system is said to be chaotic. How- ever, the chaotic zone ...

6 Encyclopedia of the Solar System the discovery of the first asteroid by 35 years, as well as the discovery of Uranus by 15 yea ...

The Solar System and Its Place in the Galaxy 7 FIGURE 1 False color images of the dust disk around the star ß Pictoris, discover ...

8 Encyclopedia of the Solar System electromagnetic forces, though to a lesser extent than ions because of their much lower charg ...

The Solar System and Its Place in the Galaxy 9 FIGURE 2 The terrestrial planets: the heavily cratered surface of Mercury as phot ...

10 Encyclopedia of the Solar System surface. Nitrogen is also present in the Venus atmosphere at a few percent relative to CO 2. ...

The Solar System and Its Place in the Galaxy 11 FIGURE 3 The jovian planets: the complex, belted atmosphere of Jupiter with the ...

12 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 4 Hubble Space Telescope image of the dwarf planet Pluto (center) with its large moon ...

The Solar System and Its Place in the Galaxy 13 FIGURE 5 A sampling of main-belt and near-Earth asteroids: 243 Ida along with it ...

14 Encyclopedia of the Solar System the Sun than the asteroids, in colder environments, they contain a significant fraction of v ...

The Solar System and Its Place in the Galaxy 15 FIGURE 6 Four cometary nuclei photographed by flyby spacecraft: Halley’s comet i ...

16 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 7 A sampling of satellites in the solar system: the dusty surface of the Earth’s Moon ...

The Solar System and Its Place in the Galaxy 17 close to the planet. In fact, Phobos, the larger and closer satellite, orbits Ma ...

18 Encyclopedia of the Solar System terrains. It has been suggested that Miranda, and possi- bly many other icy satellites, were ...

The Solar System and Its Place in the Galaxy 19 FIGURE 8 The ring systems of the jovian planets: Jupiter’s single ring photograp ...