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Strategy for the detection and study of other planetary systems and ext[r]asolar planetary materials, 1990-2000

Concludes that a coordinated program of astronomical observation, laboratory research, theoretical development, and understanding of the dynamics and origins of whatever may be found would be a technologically feasible and potentially richly rewarding extension of the study of bodies within the solar system
Print Book, English, 1990
National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1990
viii, 86 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780309041935, 9789780309046, 9789789780303, 0309041937, 9780309047, 9789780303
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1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1. Introduction; 4 2. Basic Scientific Goals; 5 3. Present Understanding of the Origin of Planetary Systems; 6 4. Observations of Extrasolar Planetary and Protoplanetary Material; 7 5. Observational Requirements for Identification of Extrasolar-System Planets; 8 6. Future Investigations of Precursor Planetary Systems; 9 7. Relation to Other Astronomical and Astrophysical Studies; 10 8. Recommendations; 11 Appendix A: The Large Star Sample Required for a Photometric Planetary Search; 12 Appendix B: List of Members, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources