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9 produkter
Planetesimals
Early Differentiation and Consequences for Planets
Av Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Benjamin P. Weiss
Inbunden, 2017
2410 kr
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Processes governing the evolution of planetesimals are critical to understanding how rocky planets are formed, how water is delivered to them, the origin of planetary atmospheres, how cores and magnetic dynamos develop, and ultimately, which planets have the potential to be habitable. Theoretical …
Earth
Av Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
149 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, as Chaucer …
Earth
Av Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
E-bok, 2017
156 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, as Chaucer …
Earth
Av Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton
E-bok, 2017
156 kr
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “blue marble,” “a blue pale dot,” or, as Chaucer …
NASA Psyche Mission
The First Up-Close Exploration of a Metal-Rich World
Av James F. Bell III, Carol A. Polanskey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
551 kr
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This book serves as the primary initial reference and starting point for readers to understand the background, motivation, and goals/objectives of the NASA Psyche Discovery mission to explore the large metal-rich Main Belt asteroid (16) Psyche. Chapters describe the development of the mission and …
Jupiter and Saturn
Inbunden, 2006
473 kr
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In antiquity, Jupiter and Saturn formed a part of mankind's understanding of the gods, but toward the end of the Renaissance in the 17th century, the invention of the telescope allowed scientists to reform their ideas about these orbital bodies in the solar system. Because of their immense size and …
Solar System
Inbunden, 2006
2515 kr
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The Solar System set explores the relationship between the Sun - the center of the solar system - and its orbiters, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, as well as asteroids, meteorites, and comets. Space missions that helped the scientific community …
Sun, Mercury and Venus
Inbunden, 2006
473 kr
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In 350 B.C.E., Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, wrote that the Earth is the center of the solar system, and that all the other bodies in the solar system orbit the Earth while set into a complex series of spheres. However, in 1514 C.E., Nicolas Copernicus, a Prussian scientist and canon in …
Asteroids, Meteorites, and Comets
Revised Edition
Inbunden, 2010
453 kr
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The field of asteroids, meteorites, and comets is moving so quickly that it has affected the whole of planetary science. The great numbers and significant sizes of the bodies found in the distant Kuiper belt have forced a redefinition of what a planet is, effectively demoting Pluto. This has …
