TAILIEUCHUNG - The Origin and Evolution of the Solar System

Since the time of Newton the basic structure of the solar system and the laws that govern the motions of the bodies within it have been well understood. One central body, the Sun, containing most of the mass of the system has a family of attendant planets in more-or-less circular orbits about it. In their turn some of the planets have accompanying satellites, including the Earth with its single satellite, the Moon. With improvements in telescope technology, and more recently through space research, knowledge of the solar system has grown apace. Since the time of Newton three planets have been discovered and also many additional satellites | The Origin and Evolution of the Solar System The Graduate Series in Astronomy Series Editors M Elvis Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics A Natta Osservatorio di Arcetri Florence The Graduate Series in Astronomy includes books on all aspects of theoretical and experimental astronomy and astrophysics. The books are written at a level suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate students and will also be useful to practising astronomers who wish to refresh their knowledge of a particular field of research. Other books in the series Dust in the Galactic Environment D C B Whittet Observational Astrophysics R E White ed Stellar Astrophysics R J Tayler ed Dust and Chemistry in Astronomy T J Millar and D A Williams ed The Physics of the Interstellar Medium J E Dyson and D A Williams Forthcoming titles The Isotropic Universe 2nd edition D Raine Dust in the Galactic Environment 2nd edition D C B Whittet The Graduate Series in Astronomy The Origin and Evolution of the Solar System M M Woolfson Department of Physics University of York UK Institute of Physics Publishing Bristol and .

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• Jovian system
• Saturnian system
• compositions of asteroids
• Stony meteorites
• Planetary structure
• Commensurable orbits