Screen LibraryAstrophysics of planet formation /
"The study of planet formation has a long history. The idea that the Solar System formed from a rotating disk of gas and dust - the Nebula Hypothesis - dates back to the writings of Kant, Laplace, and others in the eighteenth century. A quantitative description of terrestrial planet formation w...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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"The study of planet formation has a long history. The idea that the Solar System formed from a rotating disk of gas and dust - the Nebula Hypothesis - dates back to the writings of Kant, Laplace, and others in the eighteenth century. A quantitative description of terrestrial planet formation was already in place by the late 1960s, when Viktor Safronov published his now classic monograph Evolution of the Protoplanetary Cloud and Formation of the Earth and the Planets, while the main elements of the core accretion theory for gas giant planet formation were developed in the early 1980s. More recently, new observations have led to renewed interest in the problem. The most dramatic development has been the identification of extrasolar planets, first around a pulsar and subsequently in large numbers around main-sequence stars. These detections have allowed us to start to assess the Solar System's place amid an extraordinary diversity of extrasolar planetary systems. The advent of high resolution imaging of protoplanetary disks and the discovery of the Solar System's Kuiper Belt have been almost as influential, the former by providing direct information about the initial conditions for planet formation, the latter by highlighting the role of dynamics in the early evolution of planetary systems"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-328) and index. |
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9781108420501 1108420508 |
| Index Number: | QB603 |
| CLC: | P185 |
| Call Number: | P185/A733/2nd ed. |
| Contents: | Observations of planetary systems -- Protoplanetary disk structure -- Protoplanetary disk evolution -- Planetesimal formation -- Terrestrial planet formation -- Giant planet formation -- Early evolution of planetary systems. |