Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9 appears as a "string of pearls".

12.004 Course Reserve Materials, Spring Semester 2003

Regular Course Reserve, Lindgren Library

• 12.004 Typed Course Notes

• Lewis,
  Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System,
  1995
  (required text)

• Beatty, Petersen, and Chaiken,
  The New Solar System,
  4th edition, 1999
  (recommended reading)

• Binzel, Gehrels, and Matthews,
  Asteroids II,
  1989

• Burns and Matthews,
  Satellites,
  1986

• Houghton,
  The Physics of Atmospheres,
  2nd edition, 1986

• Hubbard,
  Planetary Interiors,
  1984

• Taff,
  Celestial Mechanics - A Guide for the Practitioner,
  1985

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