My little Christmas present for myself: I have just released the
English-language version of our non-fiction book on Saturn's moon Titan,
the second installment in our series on lesser worlds of the solar
system after "Pluto & Charon".
Adding the subtitle "Pluto's
big brother" was a late thought when I realised that the similarities
between the two bodies are so distinct that they ought to be attributed
to the same class of (dwarf) planets, of which I made a point in the book:
Plutonian worlds, besides Terrestrial and Jovian? For one thing, Pluto
and Titan have the same density, the same materials (though some of them
in different phases), and looking at Pluto helps a lot to understand
Titan, too. And why do both of them have a desert belt made of
precipitated tholin, both with a major disruption: Sputnik
Planum/Planitia vs. Xanadu? So, essentially, is Titan a bigger and
warmer Pluto?
Now I will
have a break from writing books till New Year and then start the third
installment that is already scheduled with a lecture in May.
Order here
Edit: Sample pages can be read on Academia.edu .
Order here
Edit: Sample pages can be read on Academia.edu .
