Bound to the sun
Subtitle: the story of planets, moons, and comets
By: Rudolf Kippenhahn ; translated by Storm Dunlop.
Publisher: W.H. Freeman
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Notes: Translation of: Unheimliche Welten.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: The heavenly machine; title: Planetary ballistics; title: Planet earth; title: The moon, our lifeless neighbor; title: The hot planets; title: Markings on Mars; title: Comets; title: Asteroids, meteorites, and interplanetary dust; title: The failed sun; title: The lord of the rings; title: The outermost planets; title: The nebula from which the sun was formed.