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Preface; Acknowledgements; Short Biography; Contents; Chapter 1: The Solar System; The Solar System Family: An Overview; Orbital and Rotational Dynamics; Resonances; Migration and Collisions; Chapter 2: The Terrestrial Planets; General View; Earth; The Moon; Mercury; Venus; Mars; Some Problems of Our Neighbor Planets' Evolution; Chapter 3: The Giant Planets; General View; Jupiter; Saturn; Uranus; Neptune; Atmospheric Dynamics; Satellites and Rings; Satellites; Rings; Chapter 4: Small Bodies; Nature and Dynamics; Asteroids; Comets; Interplanetary Dust; Meteorites
Migration and ImplicationsChapter 5: The Sun and Heliosphere; The Sun As a Star: General Properties; Structure and Energy; Composition; Solar Activity; Heliosphere; Chapter 6: Stars: Birth, Lifetime, and Death; General View; Birth; Evolution and Death; Chapter 7: Extrasolar Planets; Brief History; Methods of Detection; Properties of Exoplanets; Dynamics of Exoplanets; Further Study; Chapter 8: Planetary Systems: Origin and Evolution; Basic Remarks; Prerequisites; Protoplanetary Accretion Disks; Disk Formation: Observations, Scenario, Model; Dust in Disk
Chronology of Disk Evolution and Cosmochemical Constraints Planetary System Formation; Model of Primary Body Formation; Further Evolution; Problem of Angular Momentum Transfer; Planetary System Dynamics; Multiples; The Problems to Be Solved; Chapter 9: Astrobiology: Basic Concepts; Some Historical Highlights; Prerequisites and Constraints; Tentative Models of the Origin of Life; Evolution; Chapter 10: The Structure of the Universe; View of the Universe; Galaxies: Formation and Dynamics; Chapter 11: Cosmology: The Origin and Fate of the Universe; Brief History; Hubble's Law
Evolution and Fate of the Universe Standard Model and Superstring (M) Theory; Main Interactions and Elementary Particles; Standard Model and Symmetry Principles; Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Boson; Grand Unification; Superstring Theory; Modern View of the Universe: The Multiverse and Wormholes; Conclusions; Additional Reading; Index
Migration and ImplicationsChapter 5: The Sun and Heliosphere; The Sun As a Star: General Properties; Structure and Energy; Composition; Solar Activity; Heliosphere; Chapter 6: Stars: Birth, Lifetime, and Death; General View; Birth; Evolution and Death; Chapter 7: Extrasolar Planets; Brief History; Methods of Detection; Properties of Exoplanets; Dynamics of Exoplanets; Further Study; Chapter 8: Planetary Systems: Origin and Evolution; Basic Remarks; Prerequisites; Protoplanetary Accretion Disks; Disk Formation: Observations, Scenario, Model; Dust in Disk
Chronology of Disk Evolution and Cosmochemical Constraints Planetary System Formation; Model of Primary Body Formation; Further Evolution; Problem of Angular Momentum Transfer; Planetary System Dynamics; Multiples; The Problems to Be Solved; Chapter 9: Astrobiology: Basic Concepts; Some Historical Highlights; Prerequisites and Constraints; Tentative Models of the Origin of Life; Evolution; Chapter 10: The Structure of the Universe; View of the Universe; Galaxies: Formation and Dynamics; Chapter 11: Cosmology: The Origin and Fate of the Universe; Brief History; Hubble's Law
Evolution and Fate of the Universe Standard Model and Superstring (M) Theory; Main Interactions and Elementary Particles; Standard Model and Symmetry Principles; Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Boson; Grand Unification; Superstring Theory; Modern View of the Universe: The Multiverse and Wormholes; Conclusions; Additional Reading; Index