Solar System Moons Discovery and Mythology /

Starting from Mars outward this concise handbook provides thorough information on the satellites of the planets in the solar system. Each chapter begins with a section on the discovery and the naming of the planet's satellites or rings. This is followed by a section presenting the historic sour...

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Main Author: Blunck, J<U+00fc>rgen. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68853-2
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505 0 # |a Foreword -- Preface -- Index (with Russian spellings) -- The Satellites of Mars -- The Satellites of Jupiter -- Ther Satellites of Saturn -- The Satelleites of Uranus -- The Satellites of Neptune -- The Satellites of the Dwarf Planets -- Plates: Orbital and Physical Parameters -- References -- Figures. 
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