The formation of the solar system: theories old and new/
Woolfson, Michael M.
The formation of the solar system: theories old and new/ Michael M. Woolfson. - 2nd ed. - London: Imperial College Press, 2014. - xxii, 417 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
pt. I. General background
ch. 1. Theories come and theories go
ch. 2. Measuring atoms and the universe
pt. II. Enlightenment.
ch. 3. Greek offerings
ch. 4. The shoulders of giants
pt. III. The Solar System: features and problems.
ch. 5. The Sun and the planets
ch. 6. Satellites and rings
ch. 7. Smaller bodies of the Solar System
ch. 8. The problem to be solved
pt. IV. Early theories.
ch. 9. The French connection
ch. 10. American Catherine-Wheels
ch. 11. British big tides
ch. 12. Russian cloud capture - with British help
ch. 13. German vortices - with a little French help
ch. 14. McCrea's floccules
ch. 15. What early theories indicate
pt. V. New knowledge
ch. 16. Disks around new stars
ch. 17. Planets around other stars
ch. 18. What a theory should explain now
pt. VI. The return of the nebula.
ch. 19. The new solar nebula theory: the angular momentum problem
ch. 20. Making planets top-down
ch. 21. A bottom-up alternative
ch. 22. Making planets faster
ch. 23. Wandering planets
ch. 24. Back to top-down
pt. VII. Making stars.
ch. 25. This is the stuff that stars are made of
ch. 26. Making dense cool clouds
ch. 27. A star is born, lives and dies
pt. VIII. Capture.
ch. 28. Close to the madding crowd
ch. 29. Close encounters of the stellar kind
ch. 30. Ever decreasing circles
ch. 31. How many planetary systems?
ch. 32. Starting a family
ch. 33. Tilting - but not at windmills
pt. IX. The biggish bang hypothesis.
ch. 34. The terrestrial planets raise problems
ch. 35. A biggish bang theory: the Earth and Venus
ch. 36. Behold the wandering Moon
ch. 37. Fleet Mercury and warlike Mars
ch. 38. Gods of the sea and the nether regions
ch. 39. Bits and pieces - asteroids, comets and dwarf planets
ch. 40. Making atoms with a biggish bang
ch. 41. Is the capture theory true?
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Origin of the Solar system
Stars
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The formation of the solar system: theories old and new/ Michael M. Woolfson. - 2nd ed. - London: Imperial College Press, 2014. - xxii, 417 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
pt. I. General background
ch. 1. Theories come and theories go
ch. 2. Measuring atoms and the universe
pt. II. Enlightenment.
ch. 3. Greek offerings
ch. 4. The shoulders of giants
pt. III. The Solar System: features and problems.
ch. 5. The Sun and the planets
ch. 6. Satellites and rings
ch. 7. Smaller bodies of the Solar System
ch. 8. The problem to be solved
pt. IV. Early theories.
ch. 9. The French connection
ch. 10. American Catherine-Wheels
ch. 11. British big tides
ch. 12. Russian cloud capture - with British help
ch. 13. German vortices - with a little French help
ch. 14. McCrea's floccules
ch. 15. What early theories indicate
pt. V. New knowledge
ch. 16. Disks around new stars
ch. 17. Planets around other stars
ch. 18. What a theory should explain now
pt. VI. The return of the nebula.
ch. 19. The new solar nebula theory: the angular momentum problem
ch. 20. Making planets top-down
ch. 21. A bottom-up alternative
ch. 22. Making planets faster
ch. 23. Wandering planets
ch. 24. Back to top-down
pt. VII. Making stars.
ch. 25. This is the stuff that stars are made of
ch. 26. Making dense cool clouds
ch. 27. A star is born, lives and dies
pt. VIII. Capture.
ch. 28. Close to the madding crowd
ch. 29. Close encounters of the stellar kind
ch. 30. Ever decreasing circles
ch. 31. How many planetary systems?
ch. 32. Starting a family
ch. 33. Tilting - but not at windmills
pt. IX. The biggish bang hypothesis.
ch. 34. The terrestrial planets raise problems
ch. 35. A biggish bang theory: the Earth and Venus
ch. 36. Behold the wandering Moon
ch. 37. Fleet Mercury and warlike Mars
ch. 38. Gods of the sea and the nether regions
ch. 39. Bits and pieces - asteroids, comets and dwarf planets
ch. 40. Making atoms with a biggish bang
ch. 41. Is the capture theory true?
1783265221
Solar system
Origin of the Solar system
Stars
523.2 / WOO/F