Solar Abundances
Abstract
What is the Sun made of? This fundamental question only received an answer about 70 years ago. H N RUSSELL, whose name is associated with much pioneering research in astrophysics during the first half of this century as well as with a series of basic work in atomic spectroscopy, made the first quantitative analysis of the chemical composition of the SOLAR PHOTOSPHERE in 1929. Using eye estimates ...
- Publication:
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1888/0333750888/1979
- Bibcode:
- 2000eaa..bookE1979G
- Keywords:
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- Sun;
- Basic Solar Properties