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Guide to Earth and Space by Isaac Asimov
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

55. ARE THERE PLANETS THE ANCIENTS DIDN’T KNOW? The asteroids, which I have already described, may be tiny, but they are planets circling the sun, and no one knew of ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science July 31,2023 )
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe by Martin Rees
epub |eng | 2022-12-23 | Author:Martin Rees [Rees, Martin]

THE TUNING OF THE INITIAL EXPANSION Ω may not be exactly one, but it is now at least 0.3. At first sight, this may not seem to indicate fine tuning. ...
( Category: Cosmology July 31,2023 )
The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. Ball
epub |eng | 2008-12-02 | Author:Robert S. Ball [Ball, Robert S.]

* * * CHAPTER XV. NEPTUNE. Discovery of Neptune—A Mathematical Achievement—The Sun’s Attraction—All Bodies attract—Jupiter and Saturn—The Planetary Perturbations—Three Bodies—Nature has simplified the Problem—Approximate Solution—The Sources of Success—The Problem Stated ...
( Category: Astronomy July 31,2023 )
The Terrestrial Plane: The True Figure of the Earth by Frederick Henry Cook
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Frederick Henry Cook [Cook, Frederick Henry]

E C L I P S E S . 59 58 T H E T E R R E S T R IA L P L A N E . ...
( Category: Cosmology July 31,2023 )
Finding our Place in the Solar System: The Scientific Story of the Copernican Revolution by Todd Timberlake
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Todd Timberlake [Timberlake, Todd]

7.2 A new astronomy from physical causes 189 Figure 7.5 Diagram of the path of Mars in the Ptolemaic and Tychonic systems, from Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (1609). Image courtesy History ...
( Category: Astronomy July 31,2023 )
Asteroids: How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space by Martin Elvis
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Martin Elvis [Elvis, Martin]

PART IV Opportunity 8 Getting Space off the Ground Now we know what the asteroids could mean for our three motives: curiosity about the universe, what we have to fear ...
( Category: Comets, Meteors & Asteroids July 31,2023 )
The Women of the Moon: Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and Courage by Daniel R. Altschuler
epub |eng | 2019-05-09 | Author:Daniel R. Altschuler [Altschuler, Daniel R.]

Figure 64 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter zoom on crater Maury (image width is 150 miles). The Women of the Moon. Daniel R. Altschuler Stern and Fernando J. Ballesteros Roselló. © Daniel ...
( Category: Cosmology July 31,2023 )
Exploring the Earth and the Cosmos by Isaac Asimov
epub, pdf |eng | 2022-02-10 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

1955) advanced his Special Theory of Relativity, according to which it is impossible for anything to travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. The Special Theory has ...
( Category: Cosmology July 31,2023 )
Is Anyone Out There? by Jack Stoneley
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jack Stoneley [Stoneley, Jack]

* * * Footnotes: Newton’s rings are colored rings due to light interferences that are seen about the contact of a convex lens with a plane surface or of two ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science July 31,2023 )
One Hundred Proofs That the Earth is Not a Globe by W.M. Carpenter
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:W.M. Carpenter [Carpenter, W.M.]

18 OKE HUNDEED PEOOP8, EAETH IS NOT A GLOBE. l a distance 1 And since all this peculation and absurdity is caused by 67. Seven-hundred miles is said to be ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science July 31,2023 )
First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth by Marc Kaufman
epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Marc Kaufman [Kaufman, Marc]

• • • It was a young but extraordinarily self-confident British microbiologist named Andrew Steele (or “Steelie,” to those who know him) who first made contamination a major issue with ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science July 31,2023 )
The Roswell Legacy: The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site by Jesse Marcel
epub |eng | 2017-08-13 | Author:Jesse Marcel [Marcel, Jesse]

The Black Government Ever since I spoke with that official back in the early 1990s, I have come to believe that the black government he spoke about is something more ...
( Category: UFOs July 31,2023 )
The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin
epub |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Robert Zubrin [Zubrin, Robert]

* * * FOCUS SECTION—A CALENDAR FOR THE PLANET MARS Martian colonists will need a calendar that is tied to physical and seasonal conditions on the Red Planet—using Earth dates ...
( Category: Mars July 31,2023 )
Cosmic Coincidences: Dark Matter, Mankind, and Anthropic Cosmology by John Gribbin
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Gribbin [Gribbin, John]

The difficulty is not finding a candidate for the dark stuff in the haloes of galaxies but choosing among the many good candidates we have. The halo stuff could be ...
( Category: Cosmology July 31,2023 )
Hawking on the Big Bang and Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
epub |eng | 2010-07-24 | Author:Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Stephen]

1 5 . The path-integral approach to quantum gravity S. W. HAWKI N G 15.1 Introduction Classical general relativity is a very complete theory. It prescribes not only the equations ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science July 31,2023 )

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