''Earth, Moon, and Planets'' is a

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, published approximately ten times per year by

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. It was established in 1969 under the title ''The Moon'', was known as ''The Moon and the Planets'' from 1978 to 1983, and was first published under the current title in February 1984. The

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

is Jamie D. Gilmour (

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

). The journal's main focus is on research about the

Solar System The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Solar S ...

. Besides original research articles, ''Earth, Moon, and Planets'' publishes conference proceedings, review articles, book reviews, and special issues.

Aims and scope

''Earth, Moon, and Planets'' focuses on

original research Research is "creativity, creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular att ...

articles on

formation of stars Star formation is the process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in interstellar space, sometimes referred to as "stellar nurseries" or "star-forming regions", Jeans instability, collapse and form stars. As a branch of astronomy, star ...

and

planets A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young ...

, evolution of the

including its origin, and the evolution of extra-solar systems including their origins. The focus also includes

asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere. ...

comet A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process that is called outgassing. This produces a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena ar ...

meteoroid A meteoroid () is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are defined as objects significantly smaller than asteroids, ranging in size from grains to objects up to a meter wide. Objects smaller than this are classified as micr ...

s, and near-Earth objects, Earth impact hazards, the Solar System-Earth relationship, and related topics. Research coverage encompasses

physical Physical may refer to: *Physical examination In a physical examination, medical examination, or clinical examination, a medical practitioner examines a patient for any possible medical signs or symptoms of a medical condition. It generally co ...

and

chemical properties A chemical property is any of a material's properties that becomes evident during, or after, a chemical reaction; that is, any quality that can be established only by changing a substance's chemical identity.William L. Masterton, Cecile N. Hurley ...

of the above-mentioned celestial bodies, and their related chaotic behavior.

History

Under the title ''The Moon'', the journal was conceived by

Zdeněk Kopal Zdeněk Kopal (; 4 April 1914 – 23 June 1993) was a Czechoslovak astronomer who mainly worked in England. Kopal was born and grew up in Litomyšl (Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic). In his early astronomical career, he studied variable ...

Hannes Alfvén Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now ...

, and

Harold Urey Harold Clayton Urey ( ; April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium. He played a significant role in the d ...

in 1969 in response to the Apollo 11 Moon Landing that same year. Its aim was to provide an interdisciplinary but monothematic medium for publication of the results of original investigations in all fields of lunar studies. It was published under the Dutch publisher Reidel, which would later join with

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and be merged into

Springer Nature Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macm ...

. In 1978, the journal broadened its scope to the full solar system, changing its name to ''The Moon and the Planets''. In 1983, the journal changed its name once again to ''Earth, Moon, and Planets'' as it expanded to cover the study of the Earth from a planetary sciences standpoint. The journal’s Editors-in-Chief have been

, Vladímir Vanýsek, Mark E. Bailey, Giovanni Valsecchi, Murthy S. Gudipati, and Jamie D. Gilmour.

Abstracting and indexing

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References

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