i iomsi ce) aoa Yo) FTIR Mark A. Garlick‘The Pit Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kinglom ‘The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 440 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA, 477 Williamstown Road Por: Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarein 13, 28014 Madsi Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa hep: eww cambridge rg (© Cambridge University Press 2002 ‘This book isin copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, ‘no reproduction of any part may uke place witheut the writen permission of Cambridge University Press. Fis: published 2002 ‘ranted in the United Kingdom atthe University Press, Cambridge ‘Typeface Trump Mediaeval 10/135 pe. System Quark XPress™ A catalogue record for this book is available fom the British Library Libary of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Garlick, Mark A. (Mark Anteny], 1968- Story of the solar system / written and illustrated by Matk A. Garlick Pp. em. Includes bibliographical relerences and index. ISBN 0 521 60334 Solar system. 1. Tile Q8501.637 200 523.2e09-de2t 2001035680 ISBN 0 521 80336 5 hardbackContents Introduction 9 Part Genesis of the Sun and Solar Nebula 8 Time zero: Giant Molecular Cloud 10 2.000000 years: Solar Globule 12 2030000 yea's: Protosun_14 2130000 years: Solar Nebula _16 3 milion years: T-Tauri Phase 18 3 milion years: Outflow and Post-T-Tauri Phase 20 30-50 million years: The Main Sequence 22 Part 2 Emergence of the Sun's Family 24 2200000 years: Planetesimals and Protoplanets 26 2-3 million years: Gas Giants and Asteroids 28 3-10 million years: Ice Giants and Comets 30 3-10 million years: Regular Satellites 32 10-100 million years: Terrestrial Planets 34 100-1300 milion years: The Heavy Bombardment 36 700-1300 million years: Building the Atmospheres 38 4500 million years? Formation of the Ring Systems 40 4660 million years: The Modern Solar System 42 Part 3 Solar System Past and Present 44 ‘The Sun ~ Local Star 46 Mercury ~ Iron Planet 52 Verus~ Hell Planet 58 Earth Goldilocks Planet 64 Mars — Red Planet 72 Asteroids — Vermin of the Skies 80 Jupiter - Giant among Giants 86 Saturn - Lord of the Rings 94 Uranus ~ World on its Side Neptune — Last Giant Outpost 106 Pluto and Charon ~ Binary Planet 112 Comets - Dirty Snowballs 18 Part 4 End ofan Era 126 Present-day-10 900 million years: Main Sequence 10 900-11 600 million years: Subgiant Phase 130 11 600-12 233 million years: Red Giant Phase 132 12.233~12 365 million years: Helium Burning and Second Red Giant Phase 134 128 12365 million years: Planetary Nebula Phase 136 12365 million years: White Dwarf 138 Hundreds of blions of years: Black Dwarf 140 Time unknown: End of an Era... Start ofan Era 142 Glossary 144 Index 151