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Science 4 December 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5395, p. 1832
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5395.1832a
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ASTRONOMY:
Seeking Planetary Systems
A review by Jack J. Lissauer
Looking for Earths The Race to Find New Solar Systems
Alan Boss
Wiley, New York, 1998. 252 pp. $27.95, C$39.50. ISBN 0-471-18421-7.
Written for a general audience, this account of the colorful history of the search for extrasolar planets is presented from the perspectives of a quasi-insider, a theorist who is interested in and has influenced the observational efforts to identify planets in orbit about stars other than the sun.
The author is at the Planetary Systems Branch, Space Science Division, MS-245-3, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA. E-mail: jlissauer{at}ringside.arc.nasa.gov
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