The Planetary System

by Tobias Owen and David Morrison

Book Overview

This text will lead you to explore scientific questions and recent space discoveries. The author's conversational tone will bring the planets, their satellites, our Sun and Moon, comets, asteroids, and meteorites a bit closer to home.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201104873
• ISBN13: 9780201104875
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 519 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Stars and Galaxies and Nebula, oh my!

I bought The Planetary System for an Astronomy class and enjoyed the text immensely. I think Morrison and Owen should have added a few more explanations of events/heavenly bodies in a few places but overall this is a great book for introducing astronomy and definitely kept my interest! The cdrom that comes with the book "Voyager Skygazer" turned out to be fabulous fun although a little distracting when I discovered that I was able to track satellite orbits as well as the night sky events with its help.