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| 100 | _aWoolfson, Michael M. | ||
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_aThe formation of the solar system: theories old and new/ _cMichael M. Woolfson. |
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| 250 | _a2nd ed. | ||
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_aLondon: _bImperial College Press, _c2014. |
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_axxii, 417 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm. |
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| 505 | _apt. 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? | ||
| 650 | _aSolar system | ||
| 650 | _aOrigin of the Solar system | ||
| 650 | _aStars | ||
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