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From dust to life : the origin and evolution of our solar system / John Chambers and Jacqueline Mitton.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]Description: xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691145228 (hbk.) :
  • 0691145229 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 523.2 23
LOC classification:
  • QB791 .C43 2014
Contents:
Cosmic archaeology -- Discovering the solar system -- An evolving solar system -- The question of timing -- Meteorites -- Cosmic chemistry -- A star is born -- Nursery for planets -- Worlds of rock and metal -- The making of the moon -- Earth, cradle of life -- worlds of gas and ice -- What happened to the asteroid belt? -- The outermost solar system -- Paradigms, problems, and predictions.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-292) and index.

Cosmic archaeology -- Discovering the solar system -- An evolving solar system -- The question of timing -- Meteorites -- Cosmic chemistry -- A star is born -- Nursery for planets -- Worlds of rock and metal -- The making of the moon -- Earth, cradle of life -- worlds of gas and ice -- What happened to the asteroid belt? -- The outermost solar system -- Paradigms, problems, and predictions.

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