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Planetary Ring Systems Paperback - 2006

by Ellis D. Miner; Randii R. Wessen; Jeffrey N. Cuzzi


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Miner and Wessen have teamed together again, along with noted planetary ring scientist, Dr Jeffrey Cuzzi, to produce the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the topic of planetary rings systems yet written. The book is written in a style and at a language level easily accessible to the interested non-expert. The discussion includes subsequent scientific analyses of the observations, along with the accompanying theoretical studies, including various theories for the origins of planetary ring systems. Finally, the four ring systems are both compared and contrasted in a chapter on comparative planetology. Each chapter includes extensive notes, references, figures and tables. A bibliography is also included at the end of each chapter, for those who want to peruse the existing literature. Both a glossary and a topical index will make the book a useful reference tool for planetary scientists as well as for the targeted audience of non-experts.

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  • Title Planetary Ring Systems
  • Author Ellis D. Miner; Randii R. Wessen; Jeffrey N. Cuzzi
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition U. S. EDITION
  • Pages 234
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praxis Publications Inc
  • Date 2006-10-31
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780387341774 / 0387341773
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.66 x 0.58 in (24.23 x 16.92 x 1.47 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Planetary rings
  • Dewey Decimal Code 523.98

About the author

Of all the planets, Saturn is the most instantly recognisable to everyone because of its beautiful system of rings, visible in even a small telescope, discovered by Galileo in 1610, but not recognised for what they are until Christiaan Huygens' observations in 1655. Until 1977, Saturn's rings were considered unique, but we now know that all four gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are surrounded by ring systems. However, it is true that the rings of Saturn remain in a class of their own.

James Clerk Maxwell's fascination with the rings of Saturn was made clear in his 1857 Adams Prize essay. After quoting parts of Maxwell's essay in their recent Scientific American article on rings ["Bejewelled Worlds", special edition entitled New Light on the Solar System, V. 13, No. 3, pp. 74-83, 2003], Burns, Hamilton and Showalter stated, "A century and a half later Saturn's rings remain a symbol of all that is exotic and wondrous about the universe".

Ellis Miner and Randii Wessen co-authored the successful Springer-Praxis book, Neptune: the planet, rings and satellites, published in December 2001 which has sold 1076 copies worldwide to date.

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