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January 28, 2003
© Stephen G. Brush

Fruitful Encounters:
The Origin of the Solar System and of the Moon from Chamberlin to Apollo

by Stephen G. Brush

Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xii + 354 pp. ISBN 0-521-55214-1 (hardcover).

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CONTENTS

    PART 1: PLANETESIMALS AND STELLAR ENCOUNTERS
  1. Introduction
  2. A geologist among astronomers: The Chamberlin-Moulton theory
  3. Jeans, Jeffreys, and the decline of encounter theories
    PART 2: NEBULAR REBIRTH AND STELLAR DEATH
  1. Introduction
  2. Methodology
  3. Nuclear cosmochronology and Hoyle's research programme
  4. Cameron's programme
  5. Isotopic anomalies and the supernova trigger
    PART 3: PLANETOGONY AND PLASMA
  1. Safronov's programme
  2. The giant planets
  3. Chemical cosmogony: The terrestrial planets
  4. Alfvén's electromagnetic programme
    PART 4: WHENCE THE MOON?
  1. Introduction
  2. Early history of selenogony
  3. Harold Urey and the origin of the Moon
  4. History of modern selenogony
Reference list and citation index
Index