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Orbiting the sun : planets and satellites of the solar system
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Incorporates data collected by the Viking, Mariner, Voyager, Pioneer, and Russian space missions and is accompanied by spectacular photographs.
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- Creator
- Fred L. Whipple
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [1981]
- ©1981
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- x, 338 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674641259, 0674641256
- OCLC
- ocm06581486
- "A new and enlarged edition of Earth, moon, and planets."
- Includes index.
- Introducing the planets -- How the system holds together -- The discoveries of Neptune and Pluto -- Weights and measures -- The Earth -- The Earth as an abode for life -- The Moon's influence on the Earth -- Observing the Moon -- The nature of the Moon -- Pluto, Mercury, and Venus -- Mars -- Great Jupiter and his satellites -- The other giant systems--Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune -- Comparisons among planets and satellites -- Origin and evolution of the Solar System -- Appendix 1. Bode's law -- Appendix 2. Planetary configurations -- Appendix 3. Planetary, satellite, and other data -- Appendix 4. The star chart -- Appendix 5. The planet finder -- Appendix 6. The Moon's age