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Book

Jupiter and Saturn

Call Number

  • 523.4 E439 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Facts On File, c2006.

Physical Description

xx 220 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.

Contents

  • Jupiter: fast facts about a planet in orbit
  • Fundamental information about Jupiter
  • What makes gravity?
  • The interior of Jupiter
  • Materials, temperatures, and pressures
  • Elements and isotopes
  • What is pressure?
  • Magnetic field
  • Radio noise
  • Jupiter's surface appearance and conditions
  • Remote sensing
  • Optical depth
  • Changes in Jupiter's surface within human history: storms
  • Changes in Jupiter's surface within human history: comet Shoemaker-Levy
  • Jupiter's rings and moons
  • The surprise of Jupiter's rings
  • Jupiter's moons
  • What are synchronous orbits and synchronous rotation?
  • Moment of inertia factor
  • Rheology, or how solids can flow
  • Missions to Jupiter
  • Saturn: fast facts about a planet in orbit
  • Fundamental information about Saturn
  • Saturn's interior: composition and magnetic field
  • Structure, temperature, pressure
  • Internal heat production
  • Magnetic field
  • Saturn's surface appearance and weather
  • Saturn's rings and moons
  • Rings
  • Why are there rings?
  • Giovanni Cassini (1625-1712)
  • Saturn's moons
  • Fossa, sulci, and other terms for planetary landforms
  • Stable orbits for small bodies among much larger planets
  • Missions to Saturn
  • Conclusions: the known and the unknown
  • Appendix 1: units and measurements
  • Fundamental units
  • Comparisons among kelvin, celsius, and fahrenheit
  • Useful measures of distance
  • Definitions for electricity and magnetism
  • Prefixes
  • Appendix 2: light, wavelength, and radiation
  • Appendix 3: a list of all known moons.

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