The four hundred years of planetary science since Galileo and Kepler

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Jul 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010natur.466..575b&link_type=abstract

Nature, Vol. 466, p. 575-584

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Planetary Science, Origins, Exoplanets, History

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For 350 years after Galileo's discoveries, ground-based telescopes and theoretical modelling furnished everything we knew about the Sun's planetary retinue. Over the past five decades, however, spacecraft visits to many targets transformed these early notions, revealing the diversity of Solar System bodies and displaying active planetary processes at work. Violent events have punctuated the histories of many planets and satellites, changing them substantially since their birth. Contemporary knowledge has finally allowed testable models of the Solar System's origin to be developed and potential abodes for extraterrestrial life to be explored. Future planetary research should involve focused studies of selected targets, including exoplanets.

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