Del i serien Springer Praxis Books
New Worlds
Extrasolar Planets
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
379 kr
Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.
Exoplanet, extrasolar planet, exoEarth, exojupiter: neologisms still absent from many dictionaries. These terms are, however, current among astronomers, and are heard in their answers to a question already two millennia old: are there planets like ours elsewhere in the Universe? Greek atomists such as Epicurus were convinced of the existence of an infinite number of solar systems like our own, but it was only in 1995 that a real answer began to emerge. An extrasolar planet had been detected... a planet orbiting another star... a star like the Sun. So, the solar system was not unique! By mid- 2006 more than 200 giant exoplanets had been discovered. At this rate of discovery it seems that Earth-like planets may be found within a decade. The discovery of exoplanets held some surprises, in that they exhibited very different characteristics from what might have been expected. Although most of them are gas giants of masses comparable to Jupiter's mass, as a result of the rather insensitive nature of current detection methods, why are they from ten to fifty times closer to their stars than is Jupiter? How were these 'hot Jupiters' formed? Another surprise about exoplanets is that many of them have very elliptical orbits, while the planets of the solar system have much more circular orbits.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2007-04-25
- Mått170 x 244 x 14 mm
- Vikt402 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieSpringer Praxis Books
- Antal sidor188
- Upplaga2007
- FörlagSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
- ISBN9780387449067
Tillhör följande kategorier
Hoppa över listan
Mer från samma författare
Planetary Systems
Marc Ollivier, Thérèse Encrenaz, Francoise Roques, Franck Selsis, Fabienne Casoli
Inbunden, 2008
2 289 kr
Planetary Systems
Marc Ollivier, Thérèse Encrenaz, Francoise Roques, Franck Selsis, Fabienne Casoli
Häftad, 2010
2 289 kr
Hoppa över listan
Du kanske också är intresserad av
Planetary Systems
Marc Ollivier, Thérèse Encrenaz, Francoise Roques, Franck Selsis, Fabienne Casoli
Häftad, 2010
2 289 kr
Planetary Systems
Marc Ollivier, Thérèse Encrenaz, Francoise Roques, Franck Selsis, Fabienne Casoli
Inbunden, 2008
2 289 kr
Del 16
Solar System History from Isotopic Signatures of Volatile Elements
R. Kallenbach, Thérèse Encrenaz, Johannes Geiss, Konrad Mauersberger, Tobias Owen, François Robert
Häftad, 2012
2 149 kr
Solar System
Thérèse Encrenaz, Jean-Pierre Bibring, M. Blanc, Maria-Antonietta Barucci, Francoise Roques, Philippe Zarka
Inbunden, 2004
719 kr