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The formation of the solar system: theories old and new/ (Record no. 186304)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	1783265221
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Transcribing agency	CUS
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	523.2
Item number	WOO/F
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Woolfson, Michael M.
245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	The formation of the solar system: theories old and new/
Statement of responsibility, etc.	Michael M. Woolfson.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement	2nd ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	London:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Imperial College Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	2014.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	xxii, 417 p. :
Other physical details	ill. ;
Dimensions	23 cm.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	pt. I. General background<br/><br/>ch. 1. Theories come and theories go <br/><br/>ch. 2. Measuring atoms and the universe <br/><br/>pt. II. Enlightenment. <br/><br/>ch. 3. Greek offerings <br/><br/>ch. 4. The shoulders of giants <br/><br/>pt. III. The Solar System: features and problems. <br/><br/>ch. 5. The Sun and the planets <br/><br/>ch. 6. Satellites and rings <br/><br/>ch. 7. Smaller bodies of the Solar System <br/><br/>ch. 8. The problem to be solved <br/><br/> pt. IV. Early theories.<br/><br/>ch. 9. The French connection <br/><br/>ch. 10. American Catherine-Wheels <br/><br/>ch. 11. British big tides <br/><br/>ch. 12. Russian cloud capture - with British help <br/><br/>ch. 13. German vortices - with a little French help <br/><br/>ch. 14. McCrea's floccules <br/><br/>ch. 15. What early theories indicate <br/><br/>pt. V. New knowledge<br/><br/> ch. 16. Disks around new stars <br/><br/>ch. 17. Planets around other stars <br/><br/>ch. 18. What a theory should explain now <br/><br/>pt. VI. The return of the nebula. <br/><br/>ch. 19. The new solar nebula theory: the angular momentum problem <br/><br/>ch. 20. Making planets top-down <br/><br/>ch. 21. A bottom-up alternative <br/><br/>ch. 22. Making planets faster <br/><br/>ch. 23. Wandering planets <br/><br/>ch. 24. Back to top-down <br/><br/>pt. VII. Making stars. <br/><br/>ch. 25. This is the stuff that stars are made of <br/><br/>ch. 26. Making dense cool clouds <br/><br/>ch. 27. A star is born, lives and dies <br/><br/>pt. VIII. Capture. <br/><br/>ch. 28. Close to the madding crowd <br/><br/>ch. 29. Close encounters of the stellar kind <br/><br/>ch. 30. Ever decreasing circles <br/><br/>ch. 31. How many planetary systems? <br/><br/>ch. 32. Starting a family <br/><br/>ch. 33. Tilting - but not at windmills <br/><br/>pt. IX. The biggish bang hypothesis. <br/><br/>ch. 34. The terrestrial planets raise problems <br/><br/>ch. 35. A biggish bang theory: the Earth and Venus <br/><br/>ch. 36. Behold the wandering Moon <br/><br/>ch. 37. Fleet Mercury and warlike Mars <br/><br/>ch. 38. Gods of the sea and the nether regions <br/><br/>ch. 39. Bits and pieces - asteroids, comets and dwarf planets <br/><br/>ch. 40. Making atoms with a biggish bang <br/><br/>ch. 41. Is the capture theory true?
650 ## - SUBJECT
Keyword	Solar system
650 ## - SUBJECT
Keyword	Origin of the Solar system
650 ## - SUBJECT
Keyword	Stars
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Koha item type	General Books

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Withdrawn status	Lost status	Damaged status	Not for loan	Home library	Current library	Shelving location	Date acquired	Full call number	Accession number	Date last seen	Date last checked out	Koha item type
				Central Library, Sikkim University	Central Library, Sikkim University	General Book Section	29/08/2016	523.2 WOO/F	P41318	26/04/2019	26/04/2019	General Books