Encyclopedia of the Solar System 2nd ed

880 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 8 Astronaut Pete Conrad examines Surveyor 3’s camera and soil-sampler claw in 1969. ...

Planetary Exploration Missions 881 FIGURE 9 TheLuna 16spacecraft. in 1959 and continued with increasing capabilities until The ...

882 Encyclopedia of the Solar System In what follows, we concentrate upon successes, but those must be seen as just the most vis ...

Planetary Exploration Missions 883 was delicately aerobraked down into circular mapping orbit over a period of months, the long ...

884 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 10 The NASA spacecraft Near-Shoemakerwas launched in 1996. Venus section). (See http ...

Planetary Exploration Missions 885 one at Mars. It is also targeted to flyby asteroids 2867 Steins in 2008 and 21 Lutetia in 201 ...

886 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 11 Cassiniwas launched in 1997. New Horizons Launched in 2006 at such a high speed t ...

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888 Encyclopedia of the Solar System The amplitudeSof an astrometric signal is given by S= m M r d wheremis the mass of the unse ...

Extrasolar Planets 889 for extrasolar planets, which induce a much smaller reflex orbit on their host star and produce much smal ...

890 Encyclopedia of the Solar System This technique only works in combination with stabilized spectrometers. To minimize any ins ...

Extrasolar Planets 891 to the crossing of the caustics. The mass ratioqof the two lenses can be derived from modeling the lightc ...

892 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 3 The relative flux of planets compared to the Sun’s emission as a function of wavel ...

Extrasolar Planets 893 3. Observations of Extrasolar Planets 3.1 The Pulsar Planets The first discovery of planets outside our s ...

894 Encyclopedia of the Solar System TABLE 2 The first 8 Radial Velocity Planets msini Orbital Period, Star (Jupiter mass) P(day ...

Extrasolar Planets 895 than Saturn, the planet with the lowest mean density in the solar system. The discovery of the HD 209458 ...

896 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 7 Artist conception of theρ1 Cancri system. This extrasolar multiplanetary system co ...

Extrasolar Planets 897 FIGURE 9 The stellar metallicity distribution of planet host stars (in red) compared to a volume limited ...

898 Encyclopedia of the Solar System TABLE 3 General Characteristics of the 3 Hot Neptunes msini Orbital Period Star (Earth mass ...

Extrasolar Planets 899 TABLE 4 The Extrasolar Planets Discovered by Transit Searches Planet Mass (Jupiter mass) Radius (Jupiter) ...