The Solar System Beyond Neptune

by D.P. Cruikshank, H. Boehnhardt, Renee Dotson

A new frontier in our solar system opened with the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and the extensive population of icy bodies orbiting beyond Neptune. Today the study of all of these bodies, collectively referred to as trans-Neptunian objects, reveals them to be frozen time capsules from the earliest epochs of solar system formation. This new volume in the Space Science Series, with one hundred contributing authors, offers the most detailed and up-to-date...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816527555
• ISBN13: 9780816527557
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 3.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.6" x 11.1"