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almahu_9949369705502882
Format:
1 online resource (684 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780816542109
Series Statement:
The University of Arizona Space Science Ser.
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributing Authors -- Scientific Organizing Committee and Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1: System Background -- The Discoveries of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt | R. P. Binzel and K. Schindler -- Early Pluto Science, the Imperative for Exploration, and New Horizons | J. I. Lunine, S. A. Stern, L. A. Young, M. J. Neufeld, and R. P. Binzel -- The Transneptunian Objects as the Context for Pluto: An Astronomical Perspective | M. A. Barucci, C. M. Dalle Ore, and S. Fornasier -- Part 2: Pluto -- The Geology of Pluto | O. L. White, J. M. Moore, A. D. Howard, P. M. Schenk, K. N. Singer, D. A. Williams, and R. M. C. Lopes -- Geodynamics of Pluto | F. Nimmo and W. B. McKinnon -- The Landscapes of Pluto as Witness to Climate Evolution | J. M. Moore and A. D. Howard -- Impact Craters on Pluto and Charon and Terrain Age Estimates | K. N. Singer, S. Greenstreet, P. M. Schenk, S. J. Robbins, and V. J. Bray -- Colors and Photometric Properties of Pluto | C. B. Olkin, C. J. A. Howett, S. Protopapa, W. M. Grundy, A. J. Verbiscer, and M. W. Buie -- Surface Composition of Pluto | D. P. Cruikshank, W. M. Grundy, S. Protopapa, B. Schmitt, and I. R. Linscott -- Rheological and Thermophysical Properties and Some Processes Involving Common Volatile Materials Found on Pluto's Surface | O. M. Umurhan, C. J. Ahrens, and V. F. Chevrier -- Composition and Structure of Pluto's Atmosphere | M. E. Summers, L. A. Young, G. R. Gladstone, and M. J. Person -- Photochemistry and Haze Formation | K. E. Mandt, A. Luspay-Kuti, A. Cheng, K.-L. Jessup, and P. Gao -- Dynamics of Pluto's Atmosphere | F. Forget, T. Bertrand, D. Hinson, and A. Toigo -- Pluto's Volatile and Climate Cycles on Short and Long Timescales | L. A. Young, T. Bertrand, L. M. Trafton, F. Forget, A. M. Earle, and B. Sicardy -- Atmospheric Escape | D. F. Strobel.
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Solar Wind Interaction with the Pluto System | F. Bagenal, D. J. McComas, H. A. Elliott, E. J. Zirnstein, R. L. McNutt Jr., C. M. Lisse, P. Kollmann, P. A. Delamere, and N. P. Barnes -- Part 3: Charon and Pluto's Small Satellites -- The Geology and Geophysics of Charon | J. Spencer, R. A. Beyer, S. J. Robbins, K. N. Singer, and F. Nimmo -- Charon: Colors and Photometric Properties | C. J. A. Howett, C. B. Olkin, S. Protopapa, W. M. Grundy, A. J. Verbiscer, and B. J. Buratti -- Surface Composition of Charon | S. Protopapa, J. C. Cook, W. M. Grundy, D. P. Cruikshank, C. M. Dalle Ore, and R. A. Beyer -- The Small Satellites of Pluto | S. B. Porter, A. J. Verbiscer, H. A. Weaver, J. C. Cook, and W. M. Grundy -- Part 4: Origins, Interiors, and the Big Picture -- On the Origin of the Pluto System | R. M. Canup, K. M. Kratter, and M. Neveu -- Formation, Composition, and History of the Pluto System: A Post-New Horizons Synthesis | W. B. McKinnon, C. R. Glein, T. Bertrand, and A. R. Rhoden -- Transneptunian Space and the Post-Pluto Paradigm | A. H. Parker -- Future Exploration of the Pluto System | M. W. Buie, J. D. Hofgartner, V. J. Bray, and E. Lellouch -- The Exploration of the Primordial Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth (2014 MU69) by New Horizons S. A. Stern, J. R. Spencer, H. A. Weaver, and C. B. Olkin -- Epilogue: New Horizons: An Abbreviated Photographic Journal | M. Soluri -- Appendix A: Pluto and Charon Nomenclature | R. A. Beyer and M. Showalter -- Appendix B: The New Horizons Instrument Suite | H. A. Weaver -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Stern, S. Alan The Pluto System after New Horizons Tucson : University of Arizona Press,c2021 ISBN 9780816540945
Language:
English
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