A History of Modern Planetary Physics: Fruitful Encounters (3rd of A 3 Vol Set) (History of Modern Planetary Physics/Stephen G. Brush, Vol 3) - Hardcover

Brush, Stephen G.

 
9780521552141: A History of Modern Planetary Physics: Fruitful Encounters (3rd of A 3 Vol Set) (History of Modern Planetary Physics/Stephen G. Brush, Vol 3)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521552141 ISBN 13: 9780521552141
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Fruitful Encounters surveys the development of theories of the origin of the solar system in the twentieth century.

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The early 20th century saw the replacement of the nebular hypothesis with the Chamberlin-Moulton theory that the Solar System resulted from the encounter of the Sun with a passing star. Fruitful Encounters follows the eventual refutation of the encounter theory in the 1930s and the subsequent revival of a modernized nebular hypothesis, which was reconstructed with the help of nuclear physics. The "giant-impact" theory of the Moon's origin imagines an actual collision between the young Earth and a Mars-size planet, with the Moon being formed from a mixture of material from the impacting planet and the Earth's mantle. Professor Brush discusses the role of findings from the Apollo space program, especially the analysis of lunar samples, culminating in the establishment of this theory in the 1980s.

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Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0521552141
ISBN 13 
9780521552141
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
368
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