New worlds, the: extrasolar planets
Auteur :
Casoli, Fabienne / Encrenaz, Thérèse
Éditeur :
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN :
9780387449067
Date de publication :
25 avr. 2007
Dimensions :
24,4 x 17,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Exoplanet, extrasolar planet, exoEarth, exojupiter: neologisms still absent from many dictionaries. Another surprise about exoplanets is that many of them have very elliptical orbits, while the planets of the solar system have much more circular orbits.