The Solar System Beyond Neptun

After addressing strange cosmological hypotheses in Weird Universe, David Seargent tackles the no-less bizarre theories closer to home. Alternate views on the Solar System's formation, comet composition, and the evolution of life on Earth are only some of the topics he addresses in this new work.

Our Solar System is one of the most interesting places in the galaxy – perhaps in the entire universe. It’s the only place we know of so far that harbours life, on one small blue-green planet in the habitable zone of its star. But our planetary neighbours are interesting in their own right too. In this complete guide to our circumstellar neighbourhood, you’ll discover everything you need to know about them, from the warm rocky world of Mercury to the distant orbit of the object scientists call Farfarout. You’ll discover a wealth of worlds – not just the main eight planets but some of the moons that orbit them, and the dwarf planets that swing through the outer reaches of transneptunian space. The planets and moons of our Solar System will be some of the first places humans will explore when we finally venture beyond our own Earth and Moon. Isn’t it time you got to know them?

An overview of current knowledge and future research directions in magnetospheric physics
In the six decades since the term 'magnetosphere' was first introduced, much has been theorized and discovered about the magnetized space surrounding each of the bodies in our solar system. Each magnetosphere is unique yet behaves according to universal physical processes.