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Interiors of the planets

By Cook A.H.

Book information

Publisher
CUP
Year
1980
ISBN
0521232147, 9780521232142
LCC
QB603.I53 C66 1980
Open Library ID
OL4115285M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2157139 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Planetary Science Old
Pages
361\361
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-07-22 07:35:22

Description

Planets have excited the minds of man since prehistory. In our own time planetary science has become a rapidly developing area of astronomical research, as the instruments carried by spacecraft have vastly increased our knowledge of planetary surfaces and interiors. the rocky planets of the inner solar system bear countless craters, scars of their encounters with innumerable meteorites, although the active surface of the earth has contrived to erase these features from our own planet. The outer giants, particularly Jupiter, have vigorous atmospheres, while Io, a satellite of Jupiter, has sulphur volcanoes. In this book Alan Cook explains how the mechanical properties of the planets are determined, how planetary materials behave at high pressure, and how celestial mechanics and the quantum physics of highly condensed matter may be combined to determine the general constitution of the planets.

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