Planetesimals to brown dwarfs: What is a planet?

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue , 2006, Pages 193-216

  Basri, Gibor ^a   Brown, Michael E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmogony; Defining planets; Extrasolar planets; Kuiper belt; New planets; Substellar objects

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; COSMIC RAYS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; TERMINOLOGY;

COSMOGONY; EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; KUIPER BELT OBJECTS;

PLANETS;

PLANET; PLANETESIMAL; SOLAR SYSTEM;

EID: 33744956544     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.34.031405.125058     Document Type: Article

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