Solar System Moons Discovery and Mythology
Starting from Mars outward this concise handbook provides thorough information on the satellites of the planets in the solar system. Each chapter begins with a section on the discovery and the naming of the planet's satellites or rings. This is followed b
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Solar System Moons Discovery and Mythology
Jürgen Blunck
Solar System Moons Discovery and Mythology
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Dr. Jürgen Blunck (1935–2008) Staehlerweg 42 13465 Berlin Germany
ISBN 978-3-540-68852-5 e-ISBN 978-3-540-68853-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-68853-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009933626 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMXDesign GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany Typesetting and production: le-tex publishing services GmbH, Leipzig, Germany Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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Foreword Springer is proud to be publishing Dr. Jürgen Blunck’s last book, Solar System Moons, in the International Year of Astronomy 2009. Sadly, Dr. Blunck passed away during the copy-editing phase in summer 2008, leaving some technical questions on the manuscript unanswered. We have sought to complete the book as carefully as possible and would like to gratefully acknowledge the kind support of the author’s wife, Mrs. Zofia Blunck. Jürgen Blunck received his PhD in history at the University of Kiel in 1961. His last employment before he retired in 2000 was as librarian senior councilor at the Berlin State Library. In September 2002 he was nominated as a consulting member of the IAU Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN). In his journal articles and book publications he focused on the history of planet cartography. He was the author of several books in English and German, namely “Mars and Its Satellites”, “Götter in Planeten und Monden”, “Der rote Planet im Kartenbild”, “Wilhelm Beer – Genius der Astronomie und Ökonomie”, and “Wie die Teufel den Mond schwärzten”. Dr. Blunck’s last book, Solar System Moons – Discovery and Mythology, is an entertaining and educating work collecting in a concise format (he used to refer to it as a “manual”) the astronomical facts on the discovery of the satellites and rings of the solar system planets and the mythological backgrounds of their names. Tamara Biese and Ramon Khanna Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg
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Preface In the history of modern astronomical research, the discoveries of the planetary satellites
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