Planetary Sciences presents a comprehensive coverage of this fascinating and expanding field at a level appropriate for graduate students and researchers in the physical sciences. The book explains the wide variety of physical, chemical and geological processes that govern the motions and properties of planets. Observations of the planets, moons, asteroids, comets and planetary rings in our Solar System, as well as extrasolar planets, are described, and the process of planetary formation is discussed.
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"...an easily digested though not trivial overview of the origin, structure and physical properties of planets. The breadth of the material covered in the text is truly impressive." Pure Applied Geophysics
"A comprehensive overview..." Science
"Would I use Planetary Sciences as a text? Yes, almost certainly. It is a massive achievement, and the well-considered problems and exercises at the end of each chapter will be particularly useful to students and to test one's own understanding." Physics Today
"...the book is essentially excellent. Given their formidable task, de Pater and Lissauer have done as good a job as can be imagined, and I can't imagine two other authors doing a better job on a first edition... this book could serve as a valuable introduction to aspects of planetary science that graduate students might never study at all... the discussions are generally so comprehensive and up-to-date that active scientists will find the individual chapters to be excellent 'primers' on subjects outside their formal training. There really is no other book at this level like Planetary Sciences." William B. McKinnon, EOS
"...if you have a hankering to calculate the energy involved when an ion in the lo plasma torus impacts lo, this is the book for you!" TPO
"A comprehensive overview..." Science
"Would I use Planetary Sciences as a text? Yes, almost certainly. It is a massive achievement, and the well-considered problems and exercises at the end of each chapter will be particularly useful to students and to test one's own understanding." Physics Today
"...the book is essentially excellent. Given their formidable task, de Pater and Lissauer have done as good a job as can be imagined, and I can't imagine two other authors doing a better job on a first edition... this book could serve as a valuable introduction to aspects of planetary science that graduate students might never study at all... the discussions are generally so comprehensive and up-to-date that active scientists will find the individual chapters to be excellent 'primers' on subjects outside their formal training. There really is no other book at this level like Planetary Sciences." William B. McKinnon, EOS
"...if you have a hankering to calculate the energy involved when an ion in the lo plasma torus impacts lo, this is the book for you!" TPO
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The Space Age has revolutionized our understanding of the Solar System. Planets and large moons have become familiar worlds. As a result, our understanding of star and planet formation is increasing all the time. Planetary Sciences presents a comprehensive coverage of this fascinating and expanding field at a level appropriate for graduate students and researchers in the physical sciences. Observations of the planets, moons, asteroids comets and planetary rings in our Solar System, as well as extrasolar planets, are described, and the process of planetary formation is discussed.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An outstanding textbook on planetary science,
By Jill Malter (jillmalter@aol.com) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Planetary Sciences (Hardcover)
What's the best book to use as a text in a senior-year course on planetary science? This one gets my vote! It seems to cover everything.
After a nice introductory chapter comes the first test for this book: a 20-page chapter on dynamics with 5 pages of exercises. And this book does a great job. It explains Lagrangian points, orbital resonances, the chaotic nature of the orbit of Pluto, tides, the Yarkovski effect, and so on. And it just gets better after that, with more than 70 pages on planetary atmospheres (structure, composition, clouds, winds, photochemistry, escape). This is followed by hefty sections on planetary surfaces, planetary interiors, and planetary magnetospheres, each of which discuss the individual planets and satellites separately. Next is a chapter on meteorites, along with radiometric dating. A chapter on asteroids: their orbits, size distribution, collisional evolution, surfaces, structures, and asteroid observing techniques. And a chapter on comets, including their origins and constraints on planetary system formation theories. We return to dynamics for the ensuing chapter, on planetary rings: thicknesses, resonances, density waves, and shepherding. Following that is a chapter on planet formation, followed by a short concluding chapter on extrasolar planets. The exercises are instructive and useful throughout. I learned a great deal of material from this book, even though it was nowhere near my first exposure to planetary science.
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Great book,
By "klrgrizz" (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Planetary Sciences (Hardcover)
This is a superb book, if a little complex. You do need some mathematical and physics background to really follow all the topics. Well written, and having taken a class from Imke de Pater at Cal, a great representation of her work.
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I've used several astronomy textbooks for my classes and this is by far the worse. It doesn't explain concepts as well as other textbooks, the topics are scattered and it does not explain equations, or show how they are derived.
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Since ancient times, people have been intrigued by the wonders of the night sky, the Moon and the Sun. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
corpuscular drag, ring optical depth, collisional radius, corotational electric field, radar albedo, metallic hydrogen region, planetocentric orbits, terrestrial planet atmospheres, convection electric field, jovian ring system, cometocentric distance, planetary ring systems, normal optical depth, thermal infrared spectra, thermal skin depth, planetocentric distance, giant planet atmospheres, protoplanetary disk, interplanetary magnetic field lines, cold interstellar clouds, magnetic equatorial plane, heliocentric distance, bombardment era, low frequency radio emissions, orbital semimajor axes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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corpuscular drag, ring optical depth, collisional radius, corotational electric field, radar albedo, metallic hydrogen region, planetocentric orbits, terrestrial planet atmospheres, convection electric field, jovian ring system, cometocentric distance, planetary ring systems, normal optical depth, thermal infrared spectra, thermal skin depth, planetocentric distance, giant planet atmospheres, protoplanetary disk, interplanetary magnetic field lines, cold interstellar clouds, magnetic equatorial plane, heliocentric distance, bombardment era, low frequency radio emissions, orbital semimajor axes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mars Global Surveyor, University of Arizona Press, Mars Pathfinder, Cambridge University Press, Valles Marineris, Van Allen, Hubble Space Telescope, Olympus Mons, South Atlantic Anomaly, Academic Press, Earth's Moon, Mauna Loa, Venus Venus, Comet Shoemaker-Levy, Earth Planet, Great Red Spot, Poynting Robertson, Assume Jupiter, Ben Reuven, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Christiaan Huygens, Formation of the Terrestrial Planets, South Pacific New!
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- Encyclopedia of the Solar System by Paul Weissman on 6 pages
- Introduction to Space Physics by Margaret G. Kivelson on 6 pages
- Origin and Evolution of Planetary and Satellite Atmospheres (Space Science Series) by S. K. Atreya on 5 pages
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- Giant Planets of Our Solar System: An Introduction (Springer Praxis Books / Geophysical Sciences) by Patrick Irwin on page 7, page 43, and page 117
- Principles of Stratigraphy by Michael E. Brookfield in Back Matter
- The Restless Universe SUSSP 54 (Scottish Graduate Series) by B A Steves on page 19
- The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter: IAU Colloquium 156 (Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series) by Keith S. Noll on page 106
- Earth as an Evolving Planetary System by Kent C. Condie in Back Matter
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