planet: Bibliography

See P. Halpern, The Quest for Alien Planets: Exploring Worlds Outside the Solar System (1997); J. R. Gribbin and S. Goodwin, Empire of the Sun: Planets and Moons of the Solar System (1998).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Discovery of the Extrasolar Planets
• Identification of the Solar Planets
• Classification of the Sun's Major Planets
• Bibliography

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