1: Technical data
2: The solar system
3: The sun
4: Mercury
5: Venus
6: The earth and the moon
7: Mars and satellites
8: Jupiter, rings, and satellites
9: Saturn, rings and satellites
10: Uranus, rings, and satellites
11: Neptune, rings and satellites
12: Pluto and Charon
13: The asteroids
14: Centaur objects and Kuiper belt objects
15: Comets
16: Meteorites
17: Beyond the solar system
Glossary
Index
"It is indeed an extremely useful book. It contains everything that
is needed for the one en vogue back of the envelope calculations
and much more. Lodders and Fegley have compiled a remarkable
combination of data relevant to all aspects of planetology in a
handy booklet. The real value of the book is the supporting
literature documentation of all numbers listed. I recommend this
book without any reservations." -- Herbert Palme, Meteoritics &
Planetary Science, Vol 35, 2000
"The Planetary Scientist's Companion is a concise reference book
that will be helpful to students and researchers in planetary
sciences and related areas. Even the rapid change in knowledge of
our planetary system and the fast increase of available data will
not outdate this book in the near future. I recommend this
compilation to all persons working in the broad field of
planetology. Also those teaching in Earth and planetary sciences
will appreciate having
The Planetary Scientist's Companion available on their bookshelf."
-- Ludolf Schultz
"This book is incredibly comprehensive and well-organized. It is
jam-packed with mostly tabular data from a wide variety of
well-documented and relatively up-to-date sources, including
classic research and review papers and disparate reference sources.
While unusual for a reference book, The Planetary Scientist's
Companion actually lends itself to casual reading, which is perhaps
fitting for what the authors describe as a "'data journey' through
the
solar system and beyond." This is a succinct and handy reference
book that will be of use to most students and teachers." --EOS,
June 15, 1999
"This book has been written for the 'friend of planetary sciences'
who might be in need of some physical or chemical data to do a
quick calculation or otherwise need some facts and figures. The 17
chapters start with basic technical data and proceed to cover all
of the bodies in our solar system--the sun, the planets and their
satellites, the asteroids, the comets, and also meteorites. Data
for these bodies includes size, shape, composition, atmosphere,
and
orbital information. There is also a brief chapter, 'Beyond the
Solar System' (nearby stars, brown dwarfs, and extrasolar planets),
as well as a glossary."--Bulletin of the American Meteorological
Society
"Lodders and Fegley's modest volume is chock-full of information, a
rich handbook for the Solar System. The first 100 pages are devoted
to general geometric, chemical, and physical ideas, and data that
will be useful later. The bulk of the handbook is a body-by-body
description with data relating to the planets, their satellites and
rings, asteroids, Centaur and Kuiper belt objects, comets
meteorites, stars in the solar vicinity, and substellar objects. .
. .
The organization and the index are quite well done, and finding
specific information is not difficult; the text is rich with a
large number of helpful figures and graphs. There is a nice
glossary that
is extensive and should be useful. It should be a handy book for
any physics department teaching an astronomy course, and especially
for students or faculty when using telescopes for observation of
nearby objects. As a convenient reference, it belongs in any good
college library."--Choice
"[P]rovides important physical, chemical, and astronomical
information that will be of interest to researchers and students in
the fields of planetary science, geochemistry, and cosmochemistry.
The book is compact, yet filled with easy-to-find tabular data and
descriptive information on our solar system's planets and moons,
the sun, and other objects such as asteroids and comets. There are
also chapters on meteorites . . . and the newly discovered
planets
outside our solar system. . . . The authors state in the book's
preface that they have not intended to create a work to replace
textbooks on planetary science or cosmochemistry, but to provide a
handy
reference tool that brings together information that is widely
scattered in scientific journals and books. They have achieved this
objective. . . . [R]ecommended for all academic libraries
supporting planetary astronomy or geochemistry course offerings and
larger public library reference collections."--E-STREAMS
"It is indeed an extremely useful book. It contains everything that
is needed for the one en vogue back of the envelope calculations
and much more. Lodders and Fegley have compiled a remarkable
combination of data relevant to all aspects of planetology in a
handy booklet. The real value of the book is the supporting
literature documentation of all numbers listed. I recommend this
book without any reservations." -- Herbert Palme, Meteoritics &
Planetary Science, Vol 35, 2000
"The Planetary Scientist's Companion is a concise reference book
that will be helpful to students and researchers in planetary
sciences and related areas. Even the rapid change in knowledge of
our planetary system and the fast increase of available data will
not outdate this book in the near future. I recommend this
compilation to all persons working in the broad field of
planetology. Also those teaching in Earth and planetary sciences
will appreciate having
The Planetary Scientist's Companion available on their bookshelf."
-- Ludolf Schultz
"This book is incredibly comprehensive and well-organized. It is
jam-packed with mostly tabular data from a wide variety of
well-documented and relatively up-to-date sources, including
classic research and review papers and disparate reference sources.
While unusual for a reference book, The Planetary Scientist's
Companion actually lends itself to casual reading, which is perhaps
fitting for what the authors describe as a "'data journey' through
the
solar system and beyond." This is a succinct and handy reference
book that will be of use to most students and teachers." --EOS,
June 15, 1999
"The Planetary Scientist's Companion is a succinct and handy
reference that will be useful to those in the geophysical community
looking for a foothold into planetary science or for an interesting
compact survey of the present understanding of planetary
phenomena."--The Leading Edge
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