Astronomy
epub |eng | | Author:Katherine Miranda Pattle

Fig. 3.16SCUBA observations of Oph B-11, and the surrounding region. Greaves et al. (2003), “Star-Like Activity From A Very Young ‘Isolated Planet”’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science May 28,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Michael Brotherton

Afterword I enjoy blending hard SF with mystery, and with my background as a payload flight controller for seven Shuttle missions plus several ISS increments, it seemed a logical notion ...
( Category: Astronomy May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Brotherton [Brotherton, Michael]

Afterword I enjoy blending hard SF with mystery, and with my background as a payload flight controller for seven Shuttle missions plus several ISS increments, it seemed a logical notion ...
( Category: Astronomy May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nicky Jenner

The birth of Phobos and Deimos Firstly, and perhaps most famously, is the idea that Phobos and Deimos aren’t really related to Mars at all: they’re actually adopted asteroids that ...
( Category: Astronomy May 7,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:David H. Lyth

I will take the radius of the smoothing sphere to be proportional to the scale factor a, and will call its present value the smoothing scale . The smoothing scales ...
( Category: Astronomy April 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carrie Nugent

6 My Favorite Telescope Most asteroid hunters use telescopes sensitive to the wavelengths of light that our eyes can see. But there’s one asteroid-hunting telescope that uses a different type ...
( Category: Astronomy April 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Victor J. Stenger [Stenger, Victor J.]

Fig. 6.4. In order to “see” an object with particles, the object must have sufficient mass to scatter the incoming particles. Here ping pong balls are easily scattered by a ...
( Category: Cosmology April 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-24 | Author:Rothery, David A. [Rothery, David A.]

Clouds Clouds are highly reflective, so the cloudier an atmosphere, the more solar energy is reflected directly back into space. However, a cloudy sky increases the ability of an atmosphere ...
( Category: Astronomy March 22,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-11-06 | Author:Peter Bussey

WOULD A THEORY OF EVERYTHING BE SUFFICIENT? If a theory of everything were able to account for the whole of physics uniquely, its discovery would be the most remarkable intellectual ...
( Category: Astronomy March 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-29 | Author:Comins, Neil F. [Comins, Neil F.]

Why Stars with Different Amounts of Matter Have Different Lifetimes As just noted, more massive stars live for much shorter lengths of time than do less massive ones. A 25 ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-05 | Author:Tyler Nordgren

By this reasoning, since the famous astronomers of the nineteenth century were doing nothing more than filling in details of well-established laws, then perhaps it is no coincidence that today ...
( Category: Astronomy March 5,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael E. Bakich

Daystar Quark If you plan on using binoculars or a telescope during the great solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, you’ll be one of lots of people who will purchase ...
( Category: Astronomy February 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-11 | Author:Claudio Vita-Finzi

52 5 Differentiation Fig. 5.3 Vesta, the largest asteroid in the Solar System (mean diameter 525 km) and the secondmost massive body in the asteroid belt after the dwarf planet ...
( Category: Geology February 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:Allan Chapman [Chapman, Allan]

16.2 Pierre Gassendi’s “Astronomical Radius”. The Astronomical Radius was a popular instrument in Renaissance Europe. It worked on similar geometrical principles to “Ptolemy’s Rulers” (Figure 3.1). The long rod acts ...
( Category: General February 26,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-04 | Author:Michael R. Molnar

Ptolemy also repeatedly emphasizes how stationary planets affect the meaning of major astrological conditions. Here, he tells us that the planet influences the country controlled by the sign of the ...
( Category: Astronomy February 24,2017 )