Understanding the New Solar System: From the Editors of Scientific American

by Sandy Fritz, David H. Levy, Scientific American

Book Overview

The solar system - our sun and the planets and other bodies that orbit it - has remained essentially the same for hundreds of millions years. What, then, is the New Solar System? Quite simply what's new is our understanding of what in fact makes up the solar system and our deeper understanding of long-known objects such as the planets, their satellites, comets and asteroids.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446679534
• ISBN13: 9780446679534
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"