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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $6.00
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jacques Crovisier::Thérèse Encrenaz
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.6
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Publication Date: 2000-05-15
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Reading Level: 173
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Description: Provides a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge of comets. Presents a fascinating survey of the study of comets throughout history, from antiquity to the present day, and includes the most recent discoveries on the exceptional comets Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake. Softcover. DLC: Comets.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $4.78
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Michael E. Bakich
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.4
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Publication Date: 2000-02-13
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Reading Level: 346
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Description: The Cambridge Planetary Handbook is an invaluable reference text, bringing together key facts and data on the planets and their satellites, discoverers and researchers. It summarises many centuries' worth of data, from the earliest observations of the planets through to the most recent spaceprobe findings. The author discusses the history, mythology and theories of the main objects in our solar system, and provides a comprehensive information section with accurate and up-to-date data on the planets. The book contains excellent photography and explanatory illustrations, along with numerous historical drawings from Galileo, Huygens, Herschel and other astronomers. This book is a must for all astronomy enthusiasts, as well as academic researchers, students and teachers. Those unfamiliar with the sky will find this a user-friendly guide written in clear, non-technical language.
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Price: $90.00
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Sale: $77.00
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter Jenniskens
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.53
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Publication Date: 2008-08-28
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Reading Level: 804
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Description: Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets is a unique handbook for astronomers interested in observing meteor storms and outbursts. Spectacular displays of 'shooting stars' are created when the Earth's orbit crosses a meteoroid stream, as each meteoroid causes a bright light when it enters our atmosphere at high speed. Jenniskens, an active meteor storm chaser, explains how meteoroid streams originate from the decay of meteoroids, comets and asteroids, and how they cause meteor showers on Earth. He includes the findings of recent space missions to comets and asteroids, the risk of meteor impacts on Earth, and how meteor showers may have seeded the Earth with ingredients that made life possible. All known meteor showers are identified, accompanied by fascinating details on the most important showers and their parent comets. The book predicts when exceptional meteor showers will occur over the next 50 years, making it a valuable resource for both amateur and professional astronomers.
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Price: $129.00
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Sale: $65.00
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.2
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Publication Date: 2005-12-20
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Reading Level: 302
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Description: The papers in this volume cover a wide range of subjects covering the most recent developments in Celestial Mechanics from the theoretical point of nonlinear dynamical systems to the application to real problems. We emphasize the papers on the formation of planetary systems, their stability and also the problem of habitable zones in extrasolar planetary systems. A special topic is the stability of Trojans in our planetary system, where more and more realistic dynamical models are used to explain their complex motions: besides the important contribution from the theoretical point of view, the results of several numerical experiments unraveled the structure of the stable zone around the librations points. This volume will be of interest to astronomers and mathematicians interested in Hamiltonian mechanics and in the dynamics of planetary systems.
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Manufacturer: Thames Head Ltd.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Brian Pejovic
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Publisher: Thames Head Ltd.
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Publication Date: 1982-12
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Reading Level: 120
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $4.63
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Patrick Moore
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 520
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Publication Date: 2006-11-30
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Reading Level: 139
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Description: Mercury is one of the more difficult objects for amateur astronomers to observe because of its close proximity to the Sun. For the same reason, it is also one of the most fascinating and strange planets. Mercury is not much larger that our Moon, but orbits the Sun at an average distance of only 58 million km, compared to the Earth’s 150 million km. On its sunlit side, Mercury’s surface temperature can exceed 450C while the night side freezes at –180C. Mercury has been the target of professional astronomers through the ages, and then of space probes, the most recent of which – MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) – will go into orbit around Mercury in 2011. Amateur astronomers can see Mercury and its ever-changing phases all year, and sometimes watch it transit the Sun – the next transit is in November 2006, followed by one in May 2016. In his inimitable, easy-going style, Patrick Moore describes Mercury, the professional astronomers who have observed it over the centuries, amateur observations, and the past, present and future space missions to this extraordinary world.
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Price: $26.99
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Sale: $26.99
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Manufacturer: Read Books
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Henry Allen Hazen
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Publisher: Read Books
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Publication Date: 2008-01-31
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Reading Level: 136
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Description: 1888. - PREFACE. - The only complete collection of meteorological tables is that of Guyot, first published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1852. This has been enlarged in successive revisions until the 212 pages of the original work have grown to 738 in the fourth edition, forming a very valuable compilation of all the more important meteorological and physical tables in use since 1850. This last edition leaves nothing to be desired from a historical stand-point, but the working meteorologist still lacks a collectio l of the best tables, in compact form, convenient for use, and at small cost. The tables now presented have been in constant use by the author, and their present form is the result of many years experience in the application of various tables. They are published, not to supersede the earlier and more extended collection, but as a , convenient hand-book. In the general plan of the work, the main points to be noted are as follows 1. As far as poseble, all tables relating to the same subject are placed together. 2. All similar tables are united. Thus, the three tables for converting millimetres to inches, on pp. 200, 225 and 258 of Guyotl form Table SXSII of this collection. In addition to compactness and ease of reference, this gives a table for all conversions needed, while previously there has been published no single table that will convert barometrical observations at the highest stations, e. g. Pikes Peak. 3. Only one table is given for each computation. For barometric hypsometry, in place of Guyots seven tables in both English and French measures, only one is given in each, the best and most convenient, as found by six years constant use of various tables. 4. Only tables needed for current meteorological work are included. All references to Guyot are to 4th ed., Wash., 1884. TEXPERATURE TABLES. iv Thus, tables for converting Reaumur temperatures, Russian half lines, etc., are omitted, because needed to-day only for the reduction of old observations, and this rare use can well be supplied by Guyot. 5. The latest determination of the metre is used in all linear tables. The old length of the metre, 39.37079 in., has been used thus far, in all tables in this country and abroad, the usual argument being the inadvisability of a change previous to an authoritative determination. But the length of the metre is now known so closely that the outstanding correction can affect none of the values in our tables while the old length, when the tables are carried to .001 in. Cn6 mm roduces a-error of .001 in. The length adopted is 39.3702 in., for which determination I am indebted to Professor TV A. Rogers, of Bowdoin College, who is-confident that the true value lies between 39.37015 and 39.3702 in. An error of .0001 is hardly possible, and as the change of .0006 from the old value makes a change of only .001 in. in the conversion, it is clear that any possible outstanding error is far within the tabular values. A table computed on the new length will require no modification in the future. G. Several new tables are introduced. At the head of each table, or in its introduction, the authority is stated. If the table be nsw, i. e., recomputed or never before published in this form, it is marked Original if copied or enlarged from Guyot or any other author, the source is kiven. 7. At the end of the volume are given plates showing the distribution of the more important meteorological elements for the United States. I gratefully acknowledge the great assistance rendered me by Mr. C. J. Sawyer in the final arrangement of the hand-book. H. A. HAZEN. WASHINGTON D , . C., August 7, 1888. CONTENTS. TEM EILA T T A U I I L E E S 1 . - 9. I. Co lversiono f rri tlings F . into C.. . . . 11.. . . . ...
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Price: $59.95
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Sale: $47.95
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ellis D. Miner::Randii R. Wessen
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.481
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Publication Date: 2002-02-05
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Reading Level: 322
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Description: This is the only book on Neptune written by individuals directly involved with the Voyager Mission and its scientific findings. Written by JPL employees with ready access to the pictures and other data returned by the Voyager Mission, this book will disperse some of the myths created by the popular press and non-Voyager authors. This book recreates some of the excitement and wonder felt by those on the science and engineering teams as they witnessed the spectacular data being returned by Voyager. Like the movie "Apollo 13" and the book on which it was based, NEPTUNE: THE PLANETS, RINGS AND SATELLITES tells the real story of the Voyager Mission to the outer planets from the point of view of the people who were there. It shows clearly the planning, excitement and major advances in our knowledge of Neptune and its system associated with the highly successful Voyager Mission and will remain a definitive description of Neptune for decades to come.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $24.55
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Manufacturer: Springer
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Fritz Heide
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Publisher: Springer
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.51
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Publication Date: 2004-03-17
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Reading Level: 231
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Description: Meteorites - as well as shooting stars and meteors - result from a collision of a solid body from space with our Earth, but only meteorites are able to penetrate the Earth's protective shield, the atmosphere, and fall to the Earth's surface. Before the return of lunar samples, they were the only materials from beyond the Earth which we could take in hand and study.
This book gives a concise and up-to-date description of meteorites - fall phenomena, chemical and mineral composition, classification - as well as a discussion of their formation and origin, which also tells us the story of the formation of our Planetary System. The text is understandable for laymen and students, but can also be used as an introduction to the field for students and scientists.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $27.00
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Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Donald K. Yeomans
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 523.6
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Publication Date: 1991-01-25
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: The diminutive size of cometary bodies is in no way proportional to their scientific importance. Theorists suggest that comets played a major role in the development of the Earth and subsequent collosions of comets may have wiped out various life forms, allowing only the most adaptable to develop further. In short, the study of comets is important from a historical perspective, scientifically compelling and, at the same time, entertaining. In this authoritative book, the development of cometary ideas is traced from antiquity through the actual fly-by of Halley by international spacecraft in 1986. The focus is on the cometary theories that were evident in each era. Included are many colorful anecdotes and information about culture and important personalities throughout history. Also contains an exhaustive catalog of all comet apparitions through the year 1700.
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