Are you a fan of PLANETOLOGY? Can you plse recommend books/links to me?

Answer 1

Yes, I am. In fact, all of cosmology is one of my biggest fascinations.

I love to imagine the barely-explored planets in our solar system, and even more, the unknown ones orbiting *other* stars.... what do they look like? How far are they from us? What atmosphere, if any, do they have? Is it dark, or light on these worlds? Do they have mountains, oceans, rivers? Can we stand on their surfaces? What would we see if we did, and looked up into their skies? How often does their sun--or do their suns--"rise" and "set?" Do any other planets or moons loom large in their skies? Do they have life, and if so, is any of it intelligent? What patterns of stars do these inhabitants see? Do they, also, envision constellations? Do they, like many of us, imagine them to have powers over their lives? How often have they looked up in their night sky to skim across a million stars -- perhaps briefly glimpsing ours -- and ask those same questions?

I am also a card-carrying member of The Planetary Society, which sounds right up your alley, too. It was founded in 1980 by Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray, and Louis Friedman, and its mission is, "To inspire the people of Earth through education, research, private ventures, and public participation to explore other worlds and seek other life."

You may be interested to know (and may already know) that just today it was reported that NASA's Cassini spacecraft http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html
has found lakes on Saturn's moon, Titan. It's the first place, besides, Earth, which is known to have them, though on Titan they're probably made largely of methane.

It's an exciting time to be into planetology for another reason: it was just announced, days ago, that the 200th planet outside our solar system has been discovered. It's likely that even the youngest people on this site lived during a time when the planets orbiting our own sun were the *only* planets known. Almost twenty a year, on average, have been discovered in recent years.

As for books, here's some you might consider:

http://answers.shopping.com/xPP-Books-planetology-media_planetology~linkin_id-3070397

Happy fantasizing!

Answer 2

hi,

i think planetology is awesome, however i don't know any books on it or anything!

Answer 3

no, sorry.