Jupiter (December 1973). Shortly after that encounter the plan for this book was formulated, and a list of possible chapters was widely circulated, asking for volunteering authors. Our purpose was to make a source and textbook where none existed before. But especially fortunate for the making of this book was the wholehearted effort and cooperation of the many experts. The overwhelming response, with sometimes four volunteers for the same chapter, caused problems that were partly resolved by asking some authors to write jointly. There was a meeting of most of the authors, but that had little to do with this book of review chapters, other than to serve as a catalyst. (The 36 contributed papers are in Special Jupiter Issues of Icarus and Journal of Geophysical Research, 1976.) Extensive refereeing has been executed with at least two experts thoroughly inspecting each chapter, and this was followed by partial rewriting by the authors. The Discussions were conducted in writing, and they also have been refereed. The effective date of the material in this book is approximately November 1975....This book is comprised of 1254 pages. Part 1: Introduction and Overview, Part 2: Origin and Interior, Part 3: Atmosphere and Ionosphere, Part 4: Magnetosphere and Radiation Belt, Part 5: Satellites.

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