Physics Today April 2004 Vol. 57 No. 4

David J. Stevenson; Michael E. Brown; Robin M. Canup; Tristan Guillot; Bruce M. Jakosky; Michael T. Mellon; Torrence V. Johnson; Frank Wilczek

Published by American Institute of Physics, 2004

About this Item

Clean, unmarked and undamaged inside and out. It will be packed with a backing card, bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Special Issue: Planetary Diversity" (Planets come in a wide variety of types and exhibit a wide range of complex behavior. Still, we can ask--and answer--some fundamental questions about them) by David J. Stevenson; "The Kuiper Belt" (The hundreds of objects lying beyond Neptune's orbit provide data that enable scientists to trace the history of the outer planets. They also present an intriguing mystery) by Michael E. Brown; "Origin of the Terrestrial Planets and the Earth-Moon System" (Increasingly sophisticated computer simulations show how the four solid planets could have emerged through collisions and accretion. One late, giant collision with Earth is the likely origin of the Moon" by Robin M. Canup; "Probing the Giant Planets" (More than a hundred extrasolar giant planets have been discovered in the past few years. To understand how they were formed, we must study in detail the giants closest to us: Jupiter and Saturn) by Tristan Guillot; "Water on Mars" (Mars is cold enough that its meager water content appears to exist today simply in frozen and gas phases. But as recent evidence suggests, that may not have always been the case) by Bruce M. Jakosky and Michael T. Mellon; "A Look at the Galilean Satellites after the Galileo Mission" (From volcanic eruptions hotter than those typically found on Earth to ocean sandwiches with water trapped between ice layers, the Galileo mission revealed fascinating phenomena on Jupiter's four largest moons) by Torrence V. Johnson; plus "Physics Update"; "Reference Frame: Total relativity: March 2004" by Frank Wilczek; "Letters"; and "Search and Discovery" (Evidence reported for a 'supersolid' phase of helium-4.Lubna-Livermore collaboration forms two new superheavy elements.New silicon-based device modulates light at 1 GHz".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Physics Today April 2004 Vol. 57 No. 4
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued