Name: Planetary Satellites
Author: Burns, Joseph A.
ISBN: 9780816505524

Planetary Satellites

edited by Joseph A. Burns

University of Arizona Press, 1977
Cloth: 978-0-8165-0552-4 | eISBN: 978-0-8165-5449-2
Library of Congress Classification QB401.P55
Dewey Decimal Classification 523.98

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Published in 1977, this source book on natural satellites brings together thirty-four distinguished contributors from various fields of satellite astronomy to offer a thorough examination of Orbits and Dynamical Evolution.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Collaborating Authors

Preface / Joseph A. Burns

Glossary

Part I. Introduction

1. Introducing the Satellites / David Morrison, Dale P. Cruikshank, and Joseph A. Burns

2. Overview / Joseph A. Burns

Part II. Orbits and Dynamical Evolution

3. Properties of Satellite Orbits: Ephemerides, Dynamical Constants, and Satellite Phenomena / Kaare Aksnes

4. Motions of Natural Satellites / Jean Kovalevsky and Jean-Louis Sagnier

5. Astrometric Techniques for the Observations of Planetary Satellites / Dan Pascu

6. Rotation Histories of the Natural Satellites / Stanton J. Peale

7. Orbital Evolution / Joseph A. Burns

8. Orbit-Orbit Resonances Among Natural Satellites / Richard Greenberg

Part III. Physical Properties

9. Photometry of Satellite Surfaces / Joseph Veverka

10. Polarimetry of Satellite Surfaces / Joseph Veverka

11. Satellite Spectrophotometry and Surface Compositions / Torrence V. Johnson and Carl B. Pilcher

12. Radiometry of Satellites and of the Rings of Saturn / David Morrison

13. Stellar Occulations by Planetary Satellites / Brian O'Leary

Part IV. Objects

14. Phobos and Deimos / James B. Pollack

15. Phobos and Deimos: Geodesy / Thomas C. Duxbury

16. Photometry of the Galilean Satellites / David Morrison and Nancy D. Morrison

17. Io's Surface and the Histories of the Galilean Satellites / Fraser P. Fanale, Torrence V. Johnson, and Dennis L. Matson

18. Picture of Ganymede / Tom Gehrels

19. Saturn's Rings: A New Survey / Allan F. Cook and Fred A. Franklin

20. Titan's Atmosphere and Surface / Donald M. Hunten

21. Thermal Radiation From Titan's Atmosphere / John Caldwell

22. Variability of Titan: 1896 - 1974 / Leif E. Andersson

Part V. Satellite Origin

23. Formation of the Outer Planets and Satellites / A. G. W. Cameron

24. The Critical Velocity Phenomenon and the origin of the Regular Satellites / Bibhas R. De, Hannes Alfven, and Gustaf Arrhenius

25. Preliminary Thermal History Models of Icy Satellites / Guy J. Consolmagno and John S. Lewis

26. The Accumulation of Satellites / V. S. Safronov and E. L. Ruskol

27. Origin of Earth's Moon / John A. Wood

Reference Section

Appendix: Tabulations of Satellite Positional Observations, and of Their Discussion / P. Kenneth Seidelmann

Cited References and Bibliography

Index

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