Uranus: The Planet, Rings and Satellites (ELLIS HORWOOD LIBRARY OF SPACE SCIENCE AND SPACE TECHNOLOGY) - Hardcover

Miner, Ellis D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0139468803 ISBN 13: 9780139468803

Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd, 1990

Synopsis

A comprehensive account of the farthest of the naked-eye planets, from its 1781 discovery to the Voyager 2 encounter in January 1986. Of particular interest to professionals and graduate and undergraduate students in astronomy, but also accessible to the general reader who doesn't mind skipping a few technical passages. Fascinating photographs. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

From the Publisher

This is a topic of special interest in terms of recent and continuing discoveries of giant planets circling other stars. This second edition should be considered the definitive detailed description of what we know about Uranus. Uranus: The Planet, Rings and Satellites is couched in terms an interested non-specialist can readily understand, but contains the level of organisation and detail which also makes it a valuable resource for planetary scientists. Significant new data about Uranus and its system have been collected by HST since the Voyager 2 flyby in 1986. Although planetary scientists continue to mull over the Voyager data, considerable changes in our understanding of Uranus have occurred since the first edition. This second edition incorporates those changes (such as how the rings of Uranus were found) and also include pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope.

From the Inside Flap

Uranus occupies a unique niche in the history of western thought; for while the planets from Mercury to Saturn had been known since pre-antiquity, Uranus was the first to be discovered, in 1781, through scientific investigation. Contemporary investigation of Uranus culminated in the Voyager 2 encounter in 1986. The results of that achievement, as well of concurrent research on the planet, are reviewed by 84 international authorities in this massive volume. Because Uranus' remoteness has prevented its being studied as intensively by earth-based observation as have other members of the solar system, most of what is known about the planet--its magnetic field and magnetosphere and satellites--were learned from the Voyager data, which is viewed here from a variety of perspectives. While the book is intended to serve as a comprehensive review, it also reports a substantial amount of original research results not previously published.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ellis Horwood Ltd
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0139468803
• ISBN 13: 9780139468803
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400