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© Stephen G. Brush

The Origin of the Solar System
Soviet Research 1925-1991


by Aleksey E. Levin and Stephen G. Brush

New York: American Institute of Physics, 1995. xiii + 415 pp. ISBN 1-56396-281-0.
Distributed by Springer-Verlag.

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CONTENTS

  1. Introduction
    • The Otto Schmidt School and the Development of Planetary Cosmogony in the USSR - A. E. Levin
    • Planetary Cosmogony in the West and Safronov's Theory - S. G. Brush
  2. Selected writings of Otto Schmidt, 1922-54
  3. The Protoplanetary Cloud: General Theories of Planet Formation
  4. Rotation of Planets
  5. Formation of the Earth and Other Terrestrial Planets
  6. Origin of the Moon and Other Planetary Satellites
  7. Formation of the Giant Planets
  8. Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites
  9. Other Planetary Systems

Bibliography
Index