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TIME, SPACE, STARS AND MAN The Story of the Big Bang CONTENTS FRONT MATTER i Musing MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 1 The Universe Christian Doppler and His Effect MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 11 Measuring Distances in the Universe MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 19 Edwin Hubble's Expanding Universe MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 31 A Weird and Wonderful Universe MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 39 Matter and the Universe The Nature of Matter MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 53 The Big Bang Hypothesis MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 65 How Matter Can Clump Together MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 73 The Universe Develops Structure MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 87 Stars, Stellar Clusters and Galaxies The First Stars are Born, Live and Die MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 95 The Formation of Globular Clusters and Galaxies MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 109 Making the Sun — And Similar Stars MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 119 A Crowded Environment MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 135 The Solar System Understanding the Nature of the Solar System MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 143 Introducing the Planets MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 157 Satellites Galore MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 173 “Vermin of the Sky” and Other Small Bodies MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 193 Planets Galore MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 207 Forming the Solar System Making Planets MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 217 Shrinking Orbits and the Survival of Planetary Systems MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 229 Now Satellites Form MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 247 What Can Be Learnt from Meteorites? MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 259 A Little-Bang Theory and the Terrestrial Planets MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 269 The Moon — Its Structure and History MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 281 The Very Small Planets — Mars and Mercury MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 291 Bits and Pieces in the Solar System MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 299 The Dwarf Planets and Triton MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 307 Life on Earth The Earth Settles Down — More-or-Less MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 315 What Is Life? MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 321 The Alphabets of Life MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 333 Life Begins on Earth MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 347 The Survival of the Fittest MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 355 The Restless Earth MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 369 Oxygen, Ozone and the Evolution of Life MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 379 Man and the Earth MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 399 Musing Again MICHAEL M WOOLFSON 407 BACK MATTER 409 Back

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