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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.
- Images: NASA Planetary Photojournal site.
- 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.
- Missions: Voyager 1 passed the termination shock
in 2004; Voyager 2 is expected to pass it around 2008; The Interstellar
Boundary Explorer
(IBEX) spacecraft, scheduled to launch in 2008, will
be the first to make images of the interactions around the termination
shock.
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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