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In General > s.a. earth; history of astronomy;
orbits of gravitating bodies [including cosmological effects].
* Formation: Probably
together with, or shortly after a star, from leftover gas and
dust, by formation and merger of protoplanets; Turbulent and poorly
understood; However, it seems that planet formation is easy, and is
a mechanism for loss of angular momentum for the star.
* History: In the III
century BC Epicurus wrote to Herodotus about the infinitely many worlds,
probably inhabited; According to Aristotelians a moving body could not
be the center of another movement; When Galileo discovered Jupiter's
satellites, some said that they were illusions created by the telescope
(others laughed).
* Moons: Most of them probably
formed from rings around the planets, possibly including Earth's moon.
* Prebiological
conditions: Titan (Saturn), Europa (Jupiter).
@ General references: NS(90)feb10 insert;
issue pw(97)oct;
Morrison & Owen 03 [II];
Sobel 05;
Melosh 11 [planetary surfaces].
@ Jovian planets: Miner PT(90)jul [Voyager 2];
Sukoriansky et al PRL(02) [cloud bands and energy dissipation].
@ Formation and evolution: Ida et al ApJ(00)ap/99 [early solar system];
Malhotra SA(99)sep [migration];
Rafikov AJ(03)ap/02,
AJ(03)ap/02,
AJ(03)ap/02;
news pw(06)sep
[terrestrial planet formation and jovian migration];
Herndon ap/06 [against migration];
Woolfson 07;
Youdin a0807-ln [from grains to planetesimals];
Mosqueira et al SSR(10)-a0906-in [formation of satellite systems];
Minton & Malhotra Nat(09)-a0906 [record of migration];
Morbidelli et al AJ(10)-a1009 [migration of Jupiter and Saturn];
Jacobson & Walsh a1502-in [terrestrial planets];
Izidoro et al A&A(15)-a1506
@ Orbital parameters:
Lefloch ap/02;
Page et al ApJ(09)-a0905 [outer planets, astrometric determination];
Tremaine ApJ(15)-a1504 [statistical mechanics].
@ Moons: Jewitt et al SA(06)aug;
news SA(13)feb [formation].
@ Related topics: McBreen & Hanlon ap/99/A&A [GRBs];
Korycansky et al ApSS(01)ap [orbit engineering];
Soter AJ(06)ap,
SA(07)jan,
Basri & Brown AREPS(06)ap [definition of planet];
Sánchez-Lavega 11 [atmospheres];
Pierrehumbert PT(11)jan [infrared radiation and planetary temperature];
> s.a. Titius-Bode Law.
Individual Planets and Their Satellites
> s.a. tests of general relativity with orbits.
* Saturn ring formation:
Two popular scenarios are the tidal splitting of passing comets and the
collisional destruction of a satellite.
@ Mercury: Nelson SA(97)nov;
Peale Icarus(05)ap [precession and libration];
Solomon Sci(07)may
+ pw(07)may [molten core];
Correia & Laskar Icarus(09)-a0901 [capture into 3/2 spin-orbit resonance];
Solomon PT(11)jan;
Noyelles et al Icarus(14)-a1307 [spin-orbit evolution];
news pt(14)jun [model dynamo may solve magnetic field mystery];
Roig et al ApJL(16)-a1603 [Mercury's orbit and the jumping Jupiter model].
@ Venus:
Grinspoon ThSc(93)jul [plate tectonics?];
Solomon PT(93)jul [geophysics];
SA(94)apr, p90 [Pioneer];
Bullock & Grinspoon SA(99)mar [climate change];
Fowler & O'Brien PRS(03) [plate tectonics model];
Dick SA(04)may [8 jun 2004 transit];
Taylor pw(08)feb [Venus Express results];
Sheppard & Trujillo Icarus(09)-a0906 [survey for satellites];
Shiltsev a1206/JAHH,
comment Sheehan & Pasachoff PT(13)jul [atmosphere, Lomonosov's 1761 discovery];
Way et al GRL(16)-a1608 [inhabitable in the past?];
news sn(20)oct [doubts over phosphine detection in the atmosphere[.
@ Mars: Golombek SA(98)jul [Mars Pathfinder];
Zorpette SA(00)mar,
Musser & Alpert SA(00)mar [re going to Mars];
Albee SA(03)jun [landscapes];
Christensen SA(05)jul [diversity];
Hanford & Long ASA(06) [sound propagation];
Bell SA(06)dec [watery past];
Jones IJAB(08)-a0811 [history];
news sfn(12)feb [Mars strategy];
news cnn(15)sep [water confirmed];
Ronnet et al ApJ(16)-a1607,
news pt(16)jul [satellites];
Vasavada PT(17)mar;
Brasser EPSL(17)-a1704 [formation].
@ Jupiter:
news PT(96)jul [Io's magnetic field];
Guillot PSS(99)ap [interior];
Pappalardo et al SA(99)oct,
Greenberg AS(02) [possible sea and biosphere on Europa];
Johnson SA(00)feb [Galileo mission];
Icarus(04)169#1 [Io],
Icarus(05)177#2 [Europa];
Henrard Icarus(05) [Io rotation];
Canup & Ward a0812 [formation of Galilean satellites];
Greenberg RPP(10) [icy satellites].
@ Saturn: news Sci(96)apr [updates];
Lunine SA(04)jun,
Porco AS(07)jul [Cassini mission];
Charnoz et al Icarus(09)-a0809 [ring formation];
Iorio OAJ(10)-a0907 [perihelion precession and interpretation];
Whiting a1112 [Sir John Herschel and the stability of the rings];
Nesvorný & Vokrouhlický ApJ(16)-a1602 [orbital migration was grainy];
> s.a. quantum-to-classical transition [Hyperion].
@ Titan: Lumine AS(94);
Lebreton pw(06)feb;
Lorenz PT(08)aug;
Lorenz & Sotin SA(10)mar.
@ Enceladus: Porco SA(08)dec;
Spencer PT(11)nov;
news PT(16)mar [turbulent dissipation and water eruptions].
@ Other Saturn moons:
Freire ap/05,
Ip GRL(06) [Iapetus, mystery];
Farmer & Goldreich Icarus(06) [Prometheus and Pandora];
Coradini et al EMP(09)-a0906-conf [Cassini results].
@ Uranus: Parisi et al A&A-a0801 [the Great Collision];
Podolak & Helled ApJL(12)-a1208 [and Neptune];
Turrini et al a1402
[the ODINUS concept, twin missions to Uranus and Neptune].
@ Neptune, discovery: Sheehan et al SA(04)dec [prediction and discovery];
Kent PT(11)dec [aftermath];
Krajnović A&G(16)-a1610.
@ Neptune, moons: Stern & McKinnon AJ(00)ap/99 [Triton–cratering, activity];
Nogueira et al Icarus(11)-a1105 [origin of Triton].
Related Topics
> s.a. history [geocentric vs heliocentroc models].
* Planet X? See books by
Sitchin supposedly based on Sumerian records; Possible scenarios are a
rock-ice planetoid with mX =
0.7 mE at some 100 – 200
au, or a Jovian body with mX
= 5 mJ at about 10,000 –
20,000 au; 2005, Reports that 2003 UB313, Xena, at a ≈
97 au, is 20% larger than Pluto – and has a moon; 2014, Discovery of
Sedna-like dwarf planet 2012 VP113.
* Planet Nine? 2016,
Candidate with possible semimajor axis 700 au, eccentricity 0.6, inclination
30°, argument of perihelion 150°; 2010, Semimajor axis 400–800 au,
eccentricity 0.2–0.5, apparent magnitude > 22.5, mass 5–10
M⊕; Its presence could explain the unusual clustering of
orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian objects.
@ Additional planets / Planet X: Iorio MNRAS(09)-a0904 [constraints from inner solar system dynamics];
news pw(11)nov [was a giant planet ejected from the solar system?];
Iorio CMDA(13)-a1301 [constraints from the New Horizons spacecraft];
Iorio MNRAS(14)-a1404,
FASS(17)-a1407 [new constraints];
Cloutier et al ApJ(15)-a1509 [fifth giant planet ejected?];
Malhotra a1711-proc [rev].
@ Planet Nine: Iorio ASS(17)-a1512 [Telisto–where is it?];
Batygin & Brown AJ(16)-a1601 [new evidence];
Fienga et al A&A(16)-a1602 [constraints from Cassini data];
de la Fuente Marcos & de la Fuente Marcos MNRAS(16)-a1603 [Monte Carlo approach];
Brown & Batygin ApJL(16)-a1603,
Holman & Payne ApJ(16)-a1603 [constraints on the orbit and location];
Gomes et al ApJ(17)-a1607 [and the inclination of the planetary system];
news cosmos(19)jan [Planet Nine or a massive disc?];
Brown PT(19)mar;
Witten a2004 [primordial black hole?];
Scholtz & Unwin PRL(20) [primordial black hole?];
Napier et al a2102 [no clustering evidence];
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