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| | An Overview of the Solar System |
 | | The solar system consists of the Sun; the nine planets, more than 130 satellites of the planets, a large number of small bodies (the comets and asteroids), and the interplanetary medium. | | | How common are planetary systems around other stars? | | | This 'road map' of the solar system is the definitive guide for beginning planetary science. |
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http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/overview.html
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| | SpaceRef - Astronomy - Solar System |
| | Welcome to the Planets - This is a collection of basic planetary data and many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program extracted from the interactive program "Welcome to the Planets" which was distributed on the Planetary Data System Educational CD-ROM Version 1.5 in December 1995. | | | Planetary Data System - The Planetary Data System (PDS) archives and distributes digital data from past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. | | | Each image is accompanied by information about Solar System bodies and various spacecraft that explored them. |
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http://www.spaceref.com:16080/directory/astronomy/solar_system
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| | Planetary system Information |
| | The more common theory argues that the objects of a planetary system developed from a solar nebula. | | | PSR 1257+12 - the first extrasolar planetary system discovered, the first pulsar planetary system discovered, the first multi exoplanet system discoverd, the first multi planet system with a pulsar discovered | | | Planetary systems are generally believed to form as part of the same process which results in star formation. |
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http://www.articleshead.com/show_article/planetary-system
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| | Solar system - Free Encyclopedia |
| | The more common theory argues that the objects of a planetary system developed from a solar nebula. | | | Planetary systems are generally believed to form as part of the same process which results in star formation; although, some argue that systems are formed by some kind of accidental "stellar near-collison". | | | It has been suggested that the Sun may be part of a binary star system, with a distant companion named Nemesis. |
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http://www.wacklepedia.com/s/so/solar_system.html
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| | Solar system - definition of Solar system in Encyclopedia |
| | The more common theory argues that the objects of a planetary system developed from a solar nebula. | | | Planetary systems are generally believed to form as part of the same process which results in star formation; although, some argue that systems are formed by some kind of accidental "stellar near-collision". | | | It has been suggested that the Sun may be part of a binary star system, with a distant companion named Nemesis. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Solar_system
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Encyclopedia of the Solar System |
| | Following a thematic progression, ranging outward from the Sun to other planetary systems, the Encyclopedia of the Solar System details the dynamics of motions and rotations, solar wind, planetary, geologic, and atmospheric conditions, as well as other processes in the formation of planets, satellites and the smaller bodies of our planetary environment. | | | If you want to get a detailed, but not overly technical, overview of modern solar system science, this is the book for you. | | | "The 56 contributors to this one-volume encyclopedia-all specialists in solar system science-describe the system from the galaxy inward to the sun and then outward through the planets....The audience the editors have aimed at includes teachers, students, advanced amateurs, astronomers who do not specialize in the solar system, and professionals in other scientific and technical fields. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0122268059?v=glance
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| | ch2.5 |
| | Multiple systems should remain possible targets for any SETI strategy, with the understanding that there are added uncertainties about the possibilities for such systems. | | | Here many multiple systems are integrated numerically on a computer, each system is evaluated for stability (usually qualitatively), and the pertinent parameters for stability are identified and quantified. | | | These are not just binary stars, since at least a third of all multiple systems have three or more components (arranged in hierarchies of spacing such that any stable multiple system may be thought of as a set of binaries). |
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http://history.nasa.gov/CP-2156/ch2.5.htm
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| | Astrophysics Data System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The system uses data from the SIMBAD, NASA Extragalactic Database, International Astronomical Union Circulars and the Lunar and Planetary Institute to identify papers referring to a given object, and can also search by object position, listing papers which concern objects within a 10 arcminute radius of a give Right Ascension and Declination. | | | The software which runs the system was written specifically for it, allowing for extensive customisation to astronomical needs which would not have been possible with general purpose database software. | | | The scripts are designed to be as platform independent as possible, given the need to facilitate mirroring on different systems around the world, although the growing dominance of Linux as the operating system of choice within astronomy has led to increasing optimisation of the scripts for installation on this platform. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysics_Data_System
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| | Astronomy/Astrophysics Resources |
| | The Planetary Data System (PDS) archives and distributes digital data from past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. | | | They are in general accord with the recommendations of the International Astronomical Union and are consistent with the IAU (1976) system of astronomical constants apart from minor modifications introduced to permit a better fit to observations; in particular, dynamical time-scales and the standard reference system of J2000.0 are used where appropiate. | | | Most of these data sets are in the form of computer-readable tables of numbers, rather than images. |
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http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/guide/sci/Physics/astronom.html
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| | Notes for Gliese 876 |
| | KINOSHITA H. Stability of the GJ 876 Planetary System. | | | Resonant periodic motion and the stability of extrasolar planetary systems. | | | BEAUGE C. Modelling the high-eccentricity planetary three-body problem. |
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http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/Gl876.html
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| | Notes for Gl 86 |
| | MUSIELAK Z., STUFF T. Stability of planetary orbits in binary systems. | | | A brown dwarf in an extrasolar planetary system. | | | SOLOVAYA N. The dynamical stability of extra-solar planets in binary systems. |
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http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/Gl86.html
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| | SWISS EPHEMERIS |
| | Original JPL data are referred to the center of the gravity of the solar system. | | | Conversion from the solar system barycenter to the geocenter | | | The ephemeris files contain compressed astronomical ephemerides (in equatorial rectangular coordinates referred to the mean equinox 2000 and the solar system barycenter). |
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http://www.astro.com/swisseph/swisseph.htm
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| | The NASA Astrophysics Data System |
| | Many of the papers in the data system are available electronically, either as scanned images, or links to publishers' sites of electronic journals. | | | Data collected from SIMBAD, NED, LPI (Lunar and Planetary Institute), and IAU (International Astronomical Union) are only searchable in the Astronomy and Astrophysics database. | | | This data system is a NASA funded project and access to all ADS services is free to everybody, through the Internet. |
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http://www.istl.org/04-winter/databases2.html
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| | IDL JPL Ephemeris and Solar System Timing |
| | The JPL ephemerides provide the positions and motions of the major planetary bodies in the solar system, including the earth, moon and sun, to very high precision. | | | This function computes the differences between the two time systems. | | | The trajectories of solar system bodies must be described by either a JPL ephemeris, or by a JPL-like ephemeris generated by JPLEPHMAKE. |
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http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/ephem.html
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| | help_19.htm |
| | The system for doing this has evolved over time as the number of known variables has grown. | | | Eventually, this makes a planetary nebula, and the star becomes a small object with a huge density (of the order of tons per cubic centimeter). | | | If the lens is replaced by a perspex one they have been known to see the central stars of planetary nebula e better than most of us. |
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http://www.projectpluto.com/gloss/help_19.htm
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| | ftp.sites |
| | Files : NASA Planetary Data Systems Microwave Subnode; Planetary Radar and Radio data, mostly Venus data from Pioneer 12, Venera 15/16, and Magellan missions (/mgn, /pub, /pv, /venera). | | | Server : System : News-OS Comment: Files : GNU related things (same as the other GNU sites, no GIFs) Site : altair.krl.caltech.edu Country: USA GMT : -8/-7 Date : 9-Dec-93 Source : Archive-name: games/roguelike Alias : Admin : brown@reed.edu Organ : California Institute of Technology,, California, Kellogg Radiation Lab. | | | Server : System : Comment: guest login disallowed after 3am and before 9am local time; see the file POLICY for full details; max. |
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http://pages.ripco.com/download/text/ftp/ftp.sites
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| | Space: Orbits of planets and multiple star systems with java animations |
| | This research shows that an amazing diversity of planetary orbits are possible in some binary star systems. | | | Two java animations of the orbit of this recently discovered planet in a close binary star system. | | | "Theoretical Orbits of Planets in Binary Star Systems" |
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http://www32.brinkster.com/snefru/space
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| | 2MASS Picture of the Week Archive |
| | Gl 570D is widely separated from the main system and is indicated with an arrow. | | | Planetary nebulae are formed as low-mass stars, like our Sun, reach the end of their lives and lose their outer envelopes (for this nebula, what are now the ring and halo structures) to the interstellar medium. | | | The bright source within the bright elliptical ring is the hot central star of the planetary nebula, originally the core of the dying star, which will eventually become a white dwarf and cool off over billions of years. |
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http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/powcap16.html
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| | Epsilon Eridani |
| | In September of 2002, a team of astronomers (including Cristiano Cosmovici of the Institute for Cosmic and Planetary Science) announced at the Second European Workshop on Exo/Astrobiology that they had detected water "maser" emissions from three of 17 star systems suspected of hosting planets, including Epsilon Eridani, using the 32-meter Medicina radio telescope near Bologna. | | | Further reinforcing the indirect evidence of a planetary system around this star is the observed substructure within the dust ring and other asymmetries in the ring itself, all of which could be due to perturbations by more than one substellar companion, including one just inside the dust ring at an orbital distance of 30 AU. | | | John Whatmough also has illustrated web pages on this system in Extrasolar Visions. |
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http://www.solstation.com/stars/eps-erid.htm
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| | Abstracts 1998 |
| | Renewable energy systems are considered to be environmentally friendly, and less disturbing than the traditional energy systems of the planetary and local ecological equilibrium since their material waste can be recycled, and their thermal waste energy is part of the natural climate forming heat. | | | Systems belonging to first class are not predictable at all, those belonging to the second class are predictable only through an infinite computational capacity, and those belonging to the third class are predictable only through a trans-computational capacity. | | | We have previously developed a conceptual framework for modeling complex problem-solving based on a systems model and are now researching the implementation of this model as an automated problem-solving tool on powerful state-of-the-art distributed computing systems. |
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http://www.isss.org/1998meet/abstract.htm
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| | M57_Halo_Subaru Telescope |
| | The name "planetary nebula" given to this class of objects is due to the fact that many of them appear disc-like, similar to how the planets in our Solar System appear when viewed through a telescope. | | | Planetary nebulae like the Ring Nebula are often described as having a fairly simple structure, generalized as an elliptical shell. | | | The shape of a planetary nebula depends on the distribution of the gases that were released, the strength of the ultraviolet radiation from the white dwarf, and the particular view we have of the nebula from our vantage-point here on the Earth. |
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http://www.blackskies.com/m57halosubaru.htm
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| | Solar System Links @ GCA7Sky |
| | Planetary Formation and Our Solar System by Aki Roberge. | | | Includes data tables of solar system objects and orbits. | | | Solar System Simulation, online version of the Solar System Simulation downloadable program at the Tokyo Science Museum. |
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http://members.aol.com/gca7sky/planets.htm
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| | Neat Southern Planetaries I |
| | Like so many other planetaries - strong evidence suggests the central star is really a close binary system. | | | NGC 5189/ IC 4274/ PK 307 -3.1/ Gum 47/ RCW 76) (13335-6559) is a peculiar planetary nebula in the northeast corner constellation of Musca that is commonly named the 'Spiral Planetary'. | | | Understanding of this mechanism has lead to the production of computer generated planetaries. |
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http://www.blackskies.com/nsp01.htm
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| | Orbit Animations of Planetary and Multiple Star Systems |
| | Orbit Animations of Planetary and Multiple Star Systems | | | To better visualize actual deviations from ideal observational measurement conditions, orbital displays of extra-Solar planetary systems retain their inclination angle from Earth's line of sight -- initially displayed without added rotation or tilt. | | | The initial settings of orbit displays for multiple star systems are as noted at the bottom of each animation. |
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http://www.solstation.com/orbits.htm
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| | readme |
| | The chebychev coefficients for the planets represent the solar system barycentric positions of the centers of the planetary systems. | | | These are input by the program "TESTEPH" and are used for testing the ephemeris installation. | | | The 20-year blocks may be converted separately into binary ephemeris files using "ASC2EPH", or they may be combined into a single ASCII file and then converted into a single binary file. |
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http://newton.dm.unipi.it/orbfit/OrbFit/src/jpleph/readme
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| | Jupiter-sized Planet Discovered Orbiting Epsilon Eridani SpaceRef - Your Space Reference |
| | Similar processes are likely to exist in other planetary systems as well. | | | The announcement was made by Dr. William Cochran of the McDonald Observatory in conjunction with a presentation at the IAU Symposium on "Planetary Systems in the Universe" being held in Manchester, England. | | | A Dust Ring around epsilon Eridani: Analog to the Young Solar System, Greaves, J. et al, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 506, Issue 2, pp. |
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http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=197
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| | Hourglass |
| | The binary nature of this system seems to have lead to the complex nebula. | | | The spectacular planetary MyCn 18 is also commonly referred to as the "Etched Hourglass." To make things even more confusing, the press release for the HST image of NGC 2346 is entitled "Butterfly Nebula." | | | The Hourglass is a little-known planetary nebula in Monoceros. |
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http://www.skyhound.com/sh/archive/feb/NGC_2346.html
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| | Identification and Analysis of Binary Star Systems using Probability Theory |
| | The frequency of occurrence of binary and multiple star systems remains uncertain at the present time, and is a stumbling block to our understanding of the formation of stars, stellar systems, and planetary systems. | | | Identification of physical binary star systems, with an estimated reliability of such identifications based on the theory of probability, is also important for current and future efforts to find binary star systems that are candidates for observations with the aim of determining their orbits and component masses. | | | We will also present preliminary results from the application of these methods to Pulkovo's observation program of binary star systems, and outline how such methods might be applied to present and future high precision astrometric catalogues. |
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http://ecf.hq.eso.org/adass/adassVII/grochevae.html
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| | Alachua Astronomy Club: Solar System Walk |
| | Welcome to the Planets: Profiles each object and includes many of NASA's best images from the planetary exploration program. | | | Project Design Measurement Table — Shows scaled version of Solar System Project | | | Restoring the solar system walk is now a city and AAC project. |
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http://www.floridastars.org/sswalk.html
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| | ephemeris.com - Sun to Sedna |
| | The software section of ephemeris.com contains a free software package to read, write, and interpolate DE405 (the world's most accurate planetary database), and any other JPL planetary ephemeris. | | | Titan was selected as the target of the Huygens Probe because it is the one moon in the solar system with a significant atmosphere. | | | The software is available under the Lesser Gnu Public License, meaning you can use it anywhere, even in software you intend to sell. |
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http://www.ephemeris.com
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