Astronomy
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-08-31 | Author:Loren Eiseley [Eiseley, Loren]

II “Every man,” Thoreau once recorded in his journal, “tracks himself through life.” Thoreau meant that the individual in all his reading, his traveling, his observations, would follow only his ...
( Category: Paleontology January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:L. S. Fauber

It was not enough to be a critical reader. Every work that civilization had ever created must be assumed false. Regarding certain knowledge as a mode of demonstration and discourse ...
( Category: Astronomy January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:Leon Golub & Jay M. Pasachoff [Golub, Leon]

FIGURE 5.8. Solar eclipse composite images made from dozens of original photographs combined to bring out the full range of bright and faint features in the corona. The computer work ...
( Category: Astronomy January 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-30 | Author:Olsen, Gregg

CHAPTER FORTY Lara Watson figured her grandson Shane was being a typical teenager whenever she reached out to talk to him. In addition, her timing must have been seriously off ...
( Category: Serial Killers January 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-29 | Author:Bob King

The twin tidal bulges are not caused by centrifugal force but by the moon’s gravity. Even if the Earth stopped spinning the bulges would remain. The moon puts a squeeze ...
( Category: Astronomy December 30,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Eversberg & Klaus Vollmann

Fig. 7.21Construction of the Rowland circle (Hutley 1982) Spherical concave gratings show massive astigmatism when used on the Rowland circle. Therefore, a point source is imaged as a line. However, ...
( Category: Microwaves December 12,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:David A. Rothery

PWI is an innovative package, collecting data of a type not sought by Mariner-10 or MESSENGER. It will measure electric fields, plasma waves and radio waves, to provide information about ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science December 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-23 | Author:Motes, Andrew [Motes, Andrew]

or where r represents the satellite’s position relative to the center of Earth, and the double dot over r represents the satellite’s acceleration due to gravitational forces—the second derivative of ...
( Category: Astronomy November 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-28 | Author:Thomas Arny [Arny, Thomas]

11.1 METEORS, METEOROIDS, AND METEORITES If you have spent even an hour looking at the night sky, you have probably seen a “shooting star,” a streak of light that appears ...
( Category: Thermodynamics November 20,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Erik Asphaug

THAT’S THE MODERN picture for interpreting the cosmochemistry of meteorites: they are samples from the Main Belt, or what’s left of it, for the most part. But until the 1800s ...
( Category: Astronomy October 31,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Johnson Jr.

Zwicky was a tireless advocate of his invented theory of knowledge, which he called “Morphology.” Here he is shown lecturing on the subject at a conference in Athens, in 1970. ...
( Category: Suicide October 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-21 | Author:Bob McDonald

WHAT YOU NEED A swimming pool with diving board A ball WHAT TO DO Stand at the end of the diving board and hold the ball straight out in front ...
( Category: Astronomy October 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2000-10-19 | Author:Linenger, Jerry M

Afloat in the BlackSea, undergoingrecovery trainingfor emergencysplashdowns.(Courtesy NASA) % Left Star City, Russia,(left to right) SashaLazutkin, Vasily Tsibliev,and I standing in front ofa Soyuz capsule simulator.(Courtesy NASA/RSA) Below Final spacesuitcheckout ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight October 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-04 | Author:Simon Singh [Singh, Simon]

From the Cosmic to the Atomic In order for the Big Bang model to be accepted, there was one seemingly innocuous question that could not be ignored: why are some ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science October 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-07 | Author:Storm Dunlop

Calendar for March 02 15:48 Aldebaran 3.3°S of Moon 02 19:57 First Quarter 05 23:54 Moon 5.1°S of Pollux 08 08:49 Regulus 3.8°S of Moon 08 12:09 Neptune at conjunction ...
( Category: Astronomy October 15,2019 )