Astrophysics & Space Science
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 | | Author:Hooper, Dan

* * * To make it easier to understand how the process described in this homework problem may have played out in the early universe, picture a simple game. There ...
( Category: Cosmology November 26,2019 )
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 | 2019-09-23 | Author:S. James Gates & Cathie Pelletier

HENRY WOODD NEVINSON On the question of slave traffic in Príncipe and São Tomé, the media got involved. In 1904 and 1905, an investigative journalist named Henry Woodd Nevinson went ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science October 31,2019 )
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 | 2003-10-18 | Author:Nolen, Stephanie

Courtesy of Irene Leverton Courtesy of Wally Funk Wally Funk catches a ride in a T-33, Ft. Sill army base, 196L Irene Leverton in her first aviation job, on the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight October 19,2019 )
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 | 2019-10-14 | Author:Andrew May [Andrew May]

We conclude that about a thousand tons of Martian rocks rain down on Earth each year. Perhaps the same amount reaches Earth from the Moon. In retrospect, we didn’t have ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science October 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-08 | Author:Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Dead Man Talking Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Dear Cousin Neil, The day after my father died, I went to the funeral home to view his body. He’d been sick for ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science October 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-20 | Author:Coleman, Phil [Coleman, Phil]

The Successful Experiments of Apollo 13 Though it did fail in its primary object to land on the moon and continue study there, there were successes to be found during ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science October 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-26 | Author:Ball, Sally R. [Ball, Sally R.]

Near Outer System. This is composed of gas giant planets and their moons, comets, and asteroids that orbit between the Kuiper belt and the main asteroid belt. Objects in this ...
( Category: Astronomy October 3,2019 )