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The four hundred years of planetary science since Galileo and Kepler

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The Solar System story Planetary science began in earnest with Galileo's studies of the planets and their moons. For 350 years our view of the Solar System was filtered through ground-based telescopes and honed by theoretical models. The advent of the age of Solar System exploration — the Mariner 2 flyby of Venus in 1962 was the first successful planetary encounter — has brought close observation and even experiment to bear in the past five decades, and has transformed our knowledge of the Solar System. In a Review this week, Joseph Burns surveys the history of planetary science in the pre-space-age era and goes on to discuss some of the most interesting recent findings, highlighting the diversity of Solar System bodies and the role of chaos in Solar System evolution. And he looks forward to the next giant leap, when extrasolar planets will be observed in detail.

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  • Joseph A. Burns, 2010. "The four hundred years of planetary science since Galileo and Kepler," Nature, Nature, vol. 466(7306), pages 575-584, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:466:y:2010:i:7306:d:10.1038_nature09215
    DOI: 10.1038/nature09215
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