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The Solar System - Overview
Note: This file only lists sites providing general information on the Solar System.
For all information on specific objects or missions, see the separate reference files.

The Solar System

  • General Information: National Geographic Solar System site; National Air and Space Museum Solar System site; Calvin J Hamilton's Views of the Solar System site; American Association of Amateur Astronomers Solar System page; Alwyn Botha's The-Solar-System site (pictures and quizzes); JPL's Solar System Exploration pages.
  • Simulations: NASA site.
  • Distance Scales: NASA page.

Solar System Planets

  • The Nine Planets: Main page, and overview page.
  • Inner Planets: theman@themoon page.
  • Scientific Societies: The Planetary Society site; Peoria Astronomical Society information site.
  • Space Agencies and Labs: JPL's Solar System Dynamics site.
  • News Organizations: BBC site; NYT site; ExploreZone page.
  • Seminar Paper: Aki Roberge's site at the Carnegie Institution.

Special Topics

  • Nomenclature: USGS Astrogeology Research Program pages.
  • Internal Structure: Aki Roberge's page.
  • Cratering: Aki Roberge's page.
  • Moons: Sky & Telescope guide; Hypothetical planets and moons page.
  • Interplanetary Medium: Nine Planets smaller bodies page.
  • Planet 12: Mars-Earth.com page on and site of Zecharia Sitchin.

Outskirts of the Solar System

  • Heliosphere: MIT article by W i Axford & S T Suess.
  • Oort Cloud: Wikipedia page.
  • Local Interstellar Medium: Rice University page with description and maps.
  • Length Scales: Florida State University powers of ten page and applet.

References

  • G.H.A. Cole & M.M. Woolfson, Planetary Science: The Science of Planets Around Stars, IOP Publishing 2002.
  • R. Greeley & R. Batson, The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System, Cambridge University Press 2002.
  • C.D. Murray & S.F. Dermott, Solar System Dynamics, Cambridge University Press 2000.

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