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Solar System

Editors: David G. Fisher and Richard R. Erickson
   Lycoming College, Department of Astronomy
ISBN: 978-1-58765-530-2
List Price: $364

July 2009 · 3 volumes · 1,056 pages · 8"x10"

Solar System
Table of Contents

Publisher's Note
Editors' Introduction
List of Contributors
Complete List of Contents

Archeaostronomy (new)
Asteroids
Auroras
Big Bang
Brown Dwarfs
Callisto (new)
Ceres (new)
Comet Halley
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (new)
Comets
Coordinate Systems
Coronal Holes and Coronal Mass Ejections (new)
Cosmic Rays
Cosmology
Dwarf Planets (new)
Earth-Moon Relations (new)
Earth-Sun Relations
Earth System Science
Earth's Age
Earth's Atmosphere
Earth's Composition
Earth's Core
Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary
Earth's Crust
Earth's Crust-Mantle Boundary(new)
Earth's Differentiation
Earth's Magnetic Field: Origins
Earth's Magnetic Field: Secular Variation
Earth's Magnetic Field at Present
Earth's Magnetosphere
Earth's Mantle
Earth's Oceans
Earth's Origin
Earth's Rotation
Earth's Shape
Earth's Structure
Eclipses
Electromagnetic Radiation: Thermal Emissions (new)
Electromagnetic Radiation: Nonthermal Emissions (new)
Enceladus (new)
Eris and Dysnomia (new)
Europa
Extrasolar Planet Detection Methods (new)
Extrasolar Planetary Systems
Extraterrestrial Life in the Solar System
Gamma-Ray Bursters
Ganymede (new)
General Relativity
Gravity Measurement
Greenhouse Effect
Habitable Zones (new)
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Iapetus (new)
Impact Cratering
Infrared Astronomy
Interstellar Clouds and the Interstellar Medium
Interplanetary Environment (new)
Io
Jovian Planets
Jupiter's Atmosphere
Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Jupiter's Interior (new)
Jupiter's Magnetic Field and Radiation Belts
Jupiter's Ring System (new)
Jupiter's Satellites
Kuiper Belt (new)
Life's Origins
Lunar Craters
Lunar History
Lunar Interior (new)
Lunar Maria
Lunar Regolith Samples
Lunar Rocks
Lunar Surface Experiments (new)
Main Sequence Stars
Mars: Illusions and Conspiracies (new)
Mars: Possible Life (new)
Mars: Surface Experiments (new)
Mars's Atmosphere
Mars's Craters
Mars's Polar Caps
Mars's Satellites
Mars's Valleys
Mars's Volcanoes
Mars's Water
Mercury
Meteorites: Achondrites
Meteorites: Carbonaceous Chondrites
Meteorites: Chondrites
Meteorites: Nickel-Irons
Meteorites: Stony Irons
Meteoroids from the Moon and Mars (new)
Meteors and Meteor Showers
Milky Way
Miranda (new)
Nemesis and Planet X
Neptune's Atmosphere (new)
Neptune's Great Dark Spots (new)
Neptune's Interior (new)
Neptune's Magnetic Field (new)
Neptune's Ring System (new)
Neptune's Satellites (new)
Neutrino Astronomy
Novas, Bursters, and X-Ray Sources
Nuclear Synthesis in Stars
Optical Astronomy
Oort Cloud (new)
Planetary Classifications (new)
Planetary Atmospheres
Planetary Formation
Planetary Interiors
Planetary Magnetospheres
Planetary Orbits
Planetary Orbits: Couplings and Resonances
Planetary Ring Systems
Planetary Rotations
Planetary Satellites
Planetology: Comparative
Planetology: Comparison of Venus, Earth, and Mars (new)
Planetary Tectonics (new)
Pluto and Charon
Protostars (new)
Pulsars
Radio Astronomy
Red Dwarf Stars (new)
Red Giant Stars
Saturn's Atmosphere
Saturn's Interior (new)
Saturn's Magnetic Field
Saturn's Satellites
Saturn's Ring System
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) (new)
Solar Chromosphere (new)
Solar Corona
Solar Evolution (new)
Solar Flares
Solar Geodetics
Solar Infrared Emissions
Solar Interior (new)
Solar Magnetic Field
Solar Photosphere (new)
Solar Radiation
Solar Radio Emissions (new)
Solar Seismology
Solar Structure
Solar System: Element Distribution
Solar System: Origins
Solar Ultraviolet Emissions
Solar Variability (new)
Solar Wind
Solar X-Ray Emissions
Space-Time
Space-Time Distortion by Gravity
Stellar Evolution
Sunspots
Supernovae
Telescopes: Ground-Based
Telescopes: Space-Based
Terrestrial Planets (new)
Thermonuclear Reactions in Stars
Titan (new)
Triton (new)
Ultraviolet Astronomy
Universe: Evolution
Universe: Expansion
Universe: Structure
Uranus's Atmosphere (new)
Uranus's Interior (new)
Uranus's Magnetic Field (new)
Uranus's Rings (new)
Uranus's Satellites (new)
Uranus's Tilt (new)
Van Allen Radiation Belts
Venus's Atmosphere
Venus's Craters (new)
Venus's Surface Features
Venus's Surface Experiments
Venus's Volcanoes (new)
White and Black Dwarfs

Glossary
General Bibliography
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