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The study of the planets and their satellites, exploiting the possibilities of space research, has developed in recent years into one of the most interesting but also most difficult branches of astrophysics. In particular, understanding the observations has required all the available resources of physical chemistry and the Earth sciences (geology, mineralology, etc.).
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Unsöld, A., Baschek, B. (2002). The Physical Structure of the Objects in the Solar System. In: The New Cosmos. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04356-1_3
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