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This text treats our knowledge of the solar system from an astrophysical point of view. Part 1 deals with the formation of the solar system and its interaction with the interplanetary medium. Part 2 presents its various objects: planets and satellites, asteroids, comets, trans-neptunian objects and interplanetary dust. The final sections on extrasolar planetary systems and on the search for life in the Universe round off an introduction to a field that has grown dramatically following the space missions of the last twenty years. Over the last decade many exciting observations have helped to reshape our understanding of the solar system and planetary science. In the third corrected and revised edition of this classic on the astrophysics of our solar system, students and lecturers in astronomy and planetary science as well as planet observers will find a mine of up-to-date information.

Planetology --- Planetary sciences --- Solar system. --- Milky Way --- Planetary science. --- Planétologie --- Système solaire --- Planetology. --- Space sciences. --- Geology. --- Geophysics. --- Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Earth sciences --- Physics --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Natural history --- Science and space --- Space research --- Cosmology --- Science --- Astronomy --- Solar system

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Asteroids --- Comets --- Meteors --- Astronomical meteors --- Falling stars --- Fireballs (Meteors) --- Shooting stars (Meteors) --- Stars, Falling --- Stars, Shooting --- Near-Earth objects