Solar System Moons Discovery and Mythology /

• Main Author: Blunck, J<U+00fc>rgen. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Physics.; Science > History.; Planetology.; Astronomy.; Humanities.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; History of Science.; Cultural Heritage.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68853-2

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.