Strategy for the Detection and Study of Other Planetary Systems and Extrasolar Planetary Materials 1990-2000

This volume addresses a new opportunity in the planetary sciences--to extend our exploration outward to discover and study planetary systems that may have formed or are forming around other stars. It 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.National Research Council Staff is the author of 'Strategy for the Detection and Study of Other Planetary Systems and Extrasolar Planetary Materials 1990-2000' with ISBN 9780309041935 and ISBN 0309041937.