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Cambridge Planetary Science Series
Editors: W.I.Axford, G.E.Hunt, T.O. Mutch
Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York
www.cambridge.org
Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521106016
© Cambridge University Press 1980
A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library
Foreword ix
Note on the expression of planetary masses xi
1 Introduction 1
16
2 The internal structure of the Earth
3 Methods for the determination of the dynamical
properties of planets 51
4 Equations of state of terrestrial materials 88
5 The Moon 132
6 Mars, Venus and Mercury 171
7 High pressure metals 199
8 Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune 237
9 Departures from the hydrostatic state 273
10 Conclusion 302
Appendix 1 Limits and conditions on
planetary models 309
Appendix 2 Combination of effects of small
departures from a uniform distribution of density 318
Appendix 3 The physical librations of the Moon 319
References 324
Index 343
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FOREWORD
XI
Introduction
of the planets are now well understood, as are many minor features,
among them the effects of the general-relativistic description of gravita-
tion.
No doubt there are still discoveries to be made in orbital dynamics;
they will-come from the exploitation of modern developments in theory
and, in particular, the execution of lengthy algebraic calculations by
computer, and they will come also from the ever more precise measure-
ments of the motions of the Moon and the planets and space probes that
go close to them, by means of radio, radar and lasers. But these will
probably be refinements; the heroic age of dynamical studies is almost
closed, and other fields are now more productive. Early in this century,
definite ideas about the internal constitution of the Earth began to
develop, while estimates of the densities of the planets were available
from dynamical investigations. It was realized that Mercury, Venus and
Mars, as well as the Moon, must be in a general way similar to the Earth
while the major planets, with much lower densities, were essentially
different. In the 1930s the physics of the solid state and the quantum
mechanics of materials at high pressures, rudimentary though they were
by present day standards, were nonetheless adequate guides to thought
about the nature of the planets, and the conjunction of dynamical studies
on the one hand with the physics of condensed matter on the other is the
theme to be developed in this book.
Space research has certainly contributed to the dynamical study of the
planets, but rather in the way of refinement, for the observations of
natural objects had led to considerable knowledge of the masses, densi-
ties, gravitational fields and moments of inertia of the Moon and a
number of the planets before any space probes were launched towards
them. The refinements have been valuable and have brought precision
and simplicity to what previously may have been approximate and
complex, but the great contributions of space research have been else-
where, to the knowledge of surfaces and surface processes and of
magneticfields.We take it to be almost certain that the magneticfieldof
the Earth and the changes that the surface of the Earth undergoes are
dependent on the internal state of the Earth and are driven by sources of
energy within the Earth. The same is very likely true of the Moon and
planets, but in different ways and to different degrees; surface features
and magnetic fields no doubt contain clues to the nature of the interior,
but we do not yet know how to unravel them; we do not understand the
connexions in the Earth so how much less can we make use of them in
studying the planets. We may nonetheless be fairly confident that it is
The system of the planets 3
here that the next major step in understanding the planets will be taken.
The relation between the structures of the planets and the natures of the
materials, so far as they can be unravelled by dynamical studies and
understanding of the physics of condensed matter, is established as far as
the major features are concerned. Some ideas of the limits of knowledge
are also clear and further studies are, on the whole, likely to lead to
refinements of present ideas but not to major changes. If major changes
come, it will probably be as a result of understanding the way in which
magneticfieldsand surface processes are related to internal constitutions.
Distance Spin
from Sun Density period
(Aur Radiusb Massb (kg/m3) (d)
Moon 0.27 0.0123 3340 28
Mercury 0.387 0.382 0.055 5434 58.6
Venus 0.723 0.949 0.815 5244 243
Earth 1 1 1 5517 1
Mars 1.524 0.532 0.107 3935 1.026
Jupiter 5.203 11.16 317.8 1338 0.411
Saturn 9.539 9.41 95.1 705 0.428
Uranus 19.18 4.02 14.60 1254 0.96?
Neptune 30.06 3.89 16.78 1635 0.92?
Pluto 39.44 0.24 0.002 -1000 6.4
a
The astronomical unit (AU) is the mean distance of the Earth from the Sun
and is equal to 1.496 x 108 km.
b
The radius and mass are given in terms of the Earth's radius (6378 km) and
mass (5.977 x!0 2 4 kg).
Introduction 4
Any theory of the origin of the solar system must account for the sharp
distinction between the two groups of planets. It is not my purpose to
discuss the problem of the origin of the planets in any detail save that at
the end I shall draw some conclusions about the origin of the planets from
their present structure. The way in which the planets were formed does,
however, have consequences for the chemical constitution of the planets,
that is for the types of material of which we may suppose them to be made
up, and hence for the physical properties of those materials at high
pressure and temperature.
It is nowadays commonly supposed that the planets formed at an early
stage in the history of the Sun, during the so-called Hiyashi phase, when
the Sun was far more extended than it is now. Irregularities of density
were brought about by the influence of a second star and led to conden-
sations from which the planets formed. Many people currently favour a
hot origin of the inner planets, that is to say, that they formed from the
condensation of materials from a hot gas as opposed to accretion from a
cloud of cold dust. It is therefore thought that the temperature of a planet
immediately after formation would be the temperature of condensation.
The distribution of temperature inside the planets is discussed in Chapter
9; here I am concerned to point out that theories of planetary origin entail
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certain distributions. They also entail ideas about the compositions of the
planets. In particular, if the planets condensed from a hot gas, then the
different materials would condense in order of their boiling points, those
with the highest points condensing first and so forming the innermost
parts of the planets, followed by other materials in succession and leading
to zoned structures for the planets. Quite detailed predictions of such
sequences have been made, for the thermodynamic properties of
materials that may form planets are known in some detail. Thus, if a
mechanism for the formation of the planets is postulated, it may be
possible to show that it entails a certain internal structure and a certain
thermal history. Such an approach has been widely followed in much
recent discussion, but it is not adopted here. The fact is that the origin of
the solar system remains most obscure and while it may be plausible it is
also surely hazardous to base our ideas of the internal structure of the
planets on theories which of their nature do not admit of empirical
verification.
A different approach is taken in this book. We start with the known
dynamical properties of a planet, the size, mass, density and gravitational
field, and ask what they imply for the internal distribution of density, and
combine that with our knowledge of the properties of likely planetary
materials to derive possible models of the internal structures. It may then
be possible to make useful comparisons between the models derived in
this way and those derived from theories of the origin of the solar system.
No more will therefore be said about the origin of the planets until the
final chapter when we look at the types of structure to which we shall have
been led, and ask if they tell us anything significant about the origin of the
planets. In brief, we are going to try to work back from observations of the
planets, through models of their interiors, to criticisms of theories of
origin, in contrast to going from theories of origin to models of structure
which are constrained to fit the observed properties of the planets.
Seismological studies have enabled the internal structure of the Earth
to be worked out in great detail, so that we know the density and elastic
moduli as functions of pressure from the surface almost to the centre
(Chapter 2). We have, in fact, empirical equations of state for the major
constituents of the Earth and, by comparing them with equations of state
found experimentally in the laboratory, it is possible to identify the
chemical constituents of the Earth with some assurance. For no other
body is that possible and in consequence other, indirect, evidence must be
drawn upon to suggest the nature of the materials of the other planets.
The densities of the major planets are so low that they must be composed
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