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The Space-Age Solar System
Joseph F. Baugher (AT&T Corporation, Illinois and Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago)
ISBN: 978-0-471-85034-2
Paperback
464 pages
July 1987, ©1988
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THE FAMILY OF THE SUN.

From Flat Earth to Spaceflight.

Our Star, the Sun.

PLANETS OF ROCK: THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM.

The Earth From a Planetary Perspective.

Earth's Nearest Neighbor--The Moon.

Mercury--The Land of Fire.

Venus--the Shrouded Inferno.

Mars--A Frozen Miniature Earth.

The Debris of the Solar System--the Asteroids.

PLANETS OF LIQUID AND GAS: THE JOVIAN GIANTS.

Jupiter--A Giant Among Worlds.

Saturn--the Jewel of the Solar System.

Miniature Solar System--Jupiter's Moons.

Saturn's Moons--Worlds of Ice, Worlds of Mystery.

WORLDS OF ICE: THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM.

Uranus--Planet Turned Sideways.

Neptune, and Triton--Worlds to Explore.

Pluto--The Edge of the Solar System.

Comets--the Primordial Snowballs.

Death from the Skies.

A QUESTION OF ORIGIN.

Meteors and Meteorites--Visitors from Outer Space.

The Origin of the Solar System.

The Nebular Hypothesis Ascendant.

Appendixes.
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