Worlds without End: The Exploration of Planets Known and Unknown

Table of contents

• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Introduction 1
• 1 - The Plurality of Worlds 7
• 2 - Worlds as We Know Them 29
• 3 - Genesis and Evolution 34
• 4 - Recipes for a Rocky Planet 51
• 5 - More of the Same is Not the Same 60
• 6 - Mercuries: Too Little to Compete 68
• 7 - Giant Impacts: Chips and Broken Planets 76
• 8 - A Suite of Earths 81
• 9 - A Family of Giants 98
• 10 - Brown Dwarfs and Their Close Kin 118
• 11 - Planets Around Planets 129
• 12 - Dippy and Merely Eccentric Motions 142
• 13 - Tis the Star, the Star Above Us, Governs Our Condition 152
• 14 - Starry Nights: Life in a Globular Cluster 164
• 15 - Interstellar Orphans 172
• 16 - A Planet's Lot is Not a Happy One 181
• 17 - The Plurality of Habitable Worlds 191
• 18 - Where Do We Go from Here? 202
• Afterword 215
• Glossary 219
• Suggested Reading 225
• Acknowledgments 227
• Index 229

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