Celestial Mechanics : The Waltz of the Planets. 1st ed. 2007

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by Alessandra Celletti, Ettore Perozzi

出版情報:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2007

著者名:

• Celletti, Alessandra.
• Perozzi, Ettore.
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シリーズ名:

Popular Astronomy ;

ISBN:

9780387685779 [0387685774]    

注記:

Around and around -- Three bodies and no solution -- Celestial waltz -- Cosmic spinning tops -- Our chaotic Solar System -- Singularities, collisions and threatening bodies -- Of Moon and man -- Rock around the planets -- Lords of the rings -- At the edge of the Solar System -- On the road to exolife.
I was delighted to be invited by my colleagues Alessandra Celletti and Ettore Perozzi to provide a foreword to their book, Celestial Mechanics: The Waltz of the Planets. Having known them for many years and long admired their work in the subject so many of us love and are fascinated by, 1 read with great attention and pleasure the text when it arrived. It is a formidable task they have set themselves, to provide a book that describes attempts by successive generations of astronomers from the dawn of history five millennia ago to observe, record and understand the phenomena of the heavens, particularly the intricate and perplexing behaviour of the planets. Sun and Moon. As naked eye astronomy became aided by the telescope and the photographic plate, and since the middle of the twentieth century, by instruments launched on spacecraft into circum- Earth orbit or to the Moon and planets and beyond, the discovery of new satellites, scores of them, and ring systems displaying new and initially perplexing behaviour

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