TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woolfson, Michael M.
TI  - The formation of the solar system: theories old and new
SN  - 1783265221
U1  - 523.2 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Imperial College Press
KW  - Solar system	
KW  - Origin of the Solar system	
KW  - Stars	
N1  - 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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