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[2006-11-05]

Neptune - The planet, rings and satellites

Beyond Pluto John Davies* Author: Ellis D. Miner, Randii R. Wessen
* Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (February 5, 2002)
* Softcover; 297 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 9.1 x 6.7 x 0.7
* ISBN: 1852332166
* Content

1. The Discovery of Neptune
2. Neptune's position in the Solar System
3. Speculation about Neptune's rings
4. Other pre-Voyager Neptune observations
5. The saga of Voyager 2
6. The pre-Neptune scientific results of Voyager
7. The Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune
8. The interior of Neptune
9. The atmosphere of Neptune
10. The magnetosphere of Neptune
11. The rings of Neptune
12. The satellites of Neptune
13. Post-Voyager observations of Neptune
14. Comparative planetology of the four gas giant planets


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Neptune, the 8th planet in our Solar System. I won't say there are little books write on a single planet, however, books which write simply on Neptune, you can count. Apart from the technical masterpiece "Neptune and Triton" published by Arizona University Press, this Praxis publication is the best book on Neptune ever had.

I remembered when this book was first published, I bought it immediately. Firstly, it is because this is one in the excellent Springer-Praxis book series, I always love the books published by Praxis. Secondly, "Neptune" is a special book, in early years; Miner also published a very good book "Uranus" for Praxis. Therefore, I didn't think buy bought a copy of "Neptune".

When I not yet started my reading, and found that only the second half of book talk about Neptunian atmosphere, interior, ring etc, but used the first half to talk about the Voyagers and the pre-Neptune discoveries, I thought that that it was traveling out of scope.

However, when I started my reading, it is not the case.

Miner was one of scientists in-charging the Voyager mission to Neptune, his personally experience cannot be replaced by others. His writings are to point, no dummy words, everything he wrote are related to the Neptune findings. Even for those he mentioned for the Voyager findings on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, are all concise and it's important for the story of Neptune discoveries. It is totally different from my first impression.

More, Miner described the history of Neptune, the telescopic understanding of Neptune before Voyager; the story of Voyager, its beginning, preparation for the Neptune encounter, the detail sequence of events during the encounter as well as the in-depth Neptune sciences. From his firsthand experience, you can see how NASA's daily operation, and the details of Voyager mission, these are already worthwhile for the book.

The only weakness of this book is the coverage of Triton is too little. Since Triton is a very important moon in the solar system, persaonlly I think there should be a whole chapter dedicated for Triton.

This book is a great reading for those who love space exploration and the Solar System. This book is not too difficult nor too easy, so I suggest this book to those who have basic knowledge of the Solar System and planetary exploration.

I highly recommend this book!

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