Garlick. The Story of the Solar System

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Overview of the Solar System......Page 9
Theories for the Origin of the Solar System......Page 11
Story of the Solar System......Page 15
Part 1 Genesis of the Sun and Solar Nebula......Page 16
Time zero Giant Molecular Cloud......Page 18
2000000 years Solar Globule......Page 20
2030000 years Protosun......Page 22
2130000 years Solar Nebula......Page 24
3 million years T-Tauri Phase......Page 26
3 million years Outflow and Post-T-Tauri Phase......Page 28
30–50 million years The Main Sequence......Page 30
Part 2 Emergence of the Sun’s Family......Page 32
2200000 years Planetesimals and Protoplanets......Page 34
2–3 million years Gas Giants and Asteroids......Page 36
3–10 million years Ice Giants and Comets......Page 38
3–10 million years Regular Satellites......Page 40
10–100 million years Terrestrial Planets......Page 42
100–1300 million years The Heavy Bombardment......Page 44
700–1300 million years Building the Atmospheres......Page 46
4500 million years? Formation of the Ring Systems......Page 48
4660 million years The Modern Solar System......Page 50
Part 3 Solar System Past and Present......Page 52
Anatomy of the Sun......Page 54
The Violent Sun......Page 56
The Changing Sun......Page 59
Physical Overview......Page 60
Cosmic Casualty......Page 63
Evolution of Mercury......Page 64
Atmosphere......Page 66
Evolution of Venus......Page 69
Active Planet......Page 72
Dead Moon......Page 74
Formation of the Moon......Page 75
Evolution of the Moon......Page 76
Evolution of the Earth......Page 78
Physical Overview......Page 80
Atmosphere and Climate......Page 82
Evolution of Mars......Page 84
The Dogs of Mars: Phobos and Deimos......Page 87
The Asteroid Belt......Page 88
Other Asteroids......Page 90
History of the Asteroids......Page 92
Physical Overview......Page 94
Rings and Small Satellites......Page 97
The Galilean Satellites......Page 98
History of the Jovian System......Page 100
Physical Overview......Page 102
Titan and Other Satellites......Page 104
History of the Saturnian System......Page 106
Physical Overview......Page 108
Uranian Satellites......Page 111
History of the Uranian System......Page 112
Physical Overview......Page 114
Rings......Page 116
Triton and Other Satellites......Page 117
History of the Neptunian System......Page 118
Pluto......Page 120
History of Pluto and Charon......Page 123
Comets......Page 126
The Oort Cloud......Page 128
The Kuiper Belt......Page 131
History of the Comet Reservoirs......Page 132
Part 4 End of an Era......Page 134
Present-day –10900 million years Main Sequence......Page 136
10900–11600 million years Subgiant Phase......Page 138
11600 –12233 million years Red Giant Phase......Page 140
12233–12365 million years Helium Burning and Second Red Giant Phase......Page 142
12365 million years Planetary Nebula Phase......Page 144
12365 million years White Dwarf......Page 146
Hundreds of billions of years Black Dwarf......Page 148
Time unknown End of an Era … Start of an Era......Page 150
Glossary......Page 152
Index......Page 159