Author:
Hall, James A.
Imprint:Cham : Springer, c2016.
Descriptionxxviii, 297 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:pt. I. Moons -- 1. Mercury and Venus -- Why no real moons? -- 2. Earth and Luna -- Other near Earth objects -- 3. Mars -- Phobos -- Deimos -- Trojans -- Mars crosser/Hungaria Family -- 4. The asteroid belt -- The main belt -- Comets -- Main-belt asteroids/Hungaria Family -- 5. Jupiter -- Rings -- Amalthea (or inner) group -- The Galilean moons -- Io -- Europa -- Ganymede -- Callisto -- Themisto -- Himalia group -- Carpo -- S/203 J 12 and S/2011 J 1 -- Ananke group -- Carme group -- Pasiphae group -- S/2003 J 2 -- Jupiter trojans -- 6. Saturn -- types of moons -- Alkyonides - Co-orbital -- Dynamical families -- Inner moons -- Outer moons -- Shepherd moons -- Trojan moons -- Minor moons not classed elsewhere -- Mimas -- Enceladus -- Tethys -- Dione -- Rhea -- Titan -- Hyperion -- Iapetus -- Phoebe -- Gallic group -- Inuit group -- Norse group -- Chiron -- Themis -- 7. Uranus -- Moon discoveries? -- Inner moons -- Miranda -- Ariel -- Umbriel -- Titania -- Oberon -- Irregular moons -- Margaret -- 8. Neptune -- Inner moons -- Triton -- Nereid -- Retrograde irregular moons -- Prograde irregular moons -- 9. Distant minor planets -- Cis-Neptunian objects -- TNOs -- Centaurs with moons -- Cubewanos with moons -- Plutinos with moons -- RTNOs with moons -- SDOs with moons -- pt. II. Projects -- 10. Logging/blogging -- 11. c: the speed of light -- Measuring space with numbers -- The speed of light : a brief history -- So what is the speed of light in a vacuum? -- Playing with the speed of light -- 12. Telescopic moon targets -- Jupiter and its moons -- Age and vision -- Darkness -- Distance -- Glare -- 13. Life on moon worlds -- Habitability concerns -- Temporal concerns -- Vacation among the stars -- Io -- Saturn -- Uranus -- Triton -- 14. Citizen science -- Distributed computing -- Remote observing -- Google moon -- Appendix A. Luna and telescopes -- Appendix B. Lunar mission highlights.
Note:"This book captures the complex world of planetary moons, which are more diverse than Earths sole satellite might lead you to believe."--Back cover.
