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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

azw3 |eng | 2018-11-27 | Author:Giles Sparrow

Europa The second of Jupiter’s major ‘Galilean’ moons, Europa is also the smallest, with a diameter of 3,122 km (1,940 miles) – slightly less than Earth’s Moon. Its smooth, brilliant-white ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Gordon L. Dillow [Dillow, Gordon L.]

Again, the Catalina Sky Survey isn’t the only Near-Earth Object search and track program out there. As I mentioned earlier, there’s also Pan-STARRS, ATLAS, Spacewatch, NEOWISE, and others that are ...

epub |eng | 2008-06-09 | Author:Robert Zubrin [Zubrin, Robert]

Putting the lunar base to good use. (List of Illustrations 9.1) Beyond Fruits and Vegetables Because you were brought up on Earth, you’ve no doubt had to endure years of ...

azw3 |eng | 2019-05-05 | Author:Lloyd, Andy [Lloyd, Andy]

Hurtling Through the Solar System The speed with which the mysterious object was moving was much faster than that of any regular, orbiting object in the solar system. At the ...

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 ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:Colin Nicholl [Nicholl, Colin]

FIG. 9.2 Halley’s Comet (1P/Halley) (NASA/W. Liller). A photograph taken on March 8, 1986, by W. Liller, Easter Island, as part of the International Halley Watch Large Scale Phenomena Network. ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2002-10-03 | Author:Stephen Webb [Webb, Stephen]

FIGURE 44: The planetary nebula NGC 7027. Objects like this produce much of the carbon we observe in the Universe. The main producers of cosmic carbon are planetary nebulae, which ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2006-02-13 | Author:Kathy Sawyer

Running throughout the activities was an obvious awareness of a political dilemma: how to demonstrate political commitment to tackling the big, fundamental questions when there was little hope of prying ...

epub, mobi | | | Author:Carl Sagan [Sagan, Carl]

18. The Canals of Mars In 1877 (as in 1971) the planet Mars was close–forty million miles from Earth. European astronomers, with newly developed telescopes, prepared for what was then ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Burrows, William E.

Nuclear explosives constitute a mature technology, with well-characterized outputs. They represent by far the most mass-efficient method of energy transport and should be considered as an option for NEO mitigation. ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Yeomans, Donald K.

FIGURE 6.3. The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa extensively studied near-Earth asteroid (25143) Itokawa in the fall of 2005. Near-Earth asteroid Itokawa was named for the father of Japanese rocketry, Hideo Itokawa, ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Vladimir Rubtsov & Edward Ashpole

duration of the effect. The TSB had exploded in the lower atmo- sphere, at a height less than 10 km, where high-temperature plasma can exist only several minutes before it ...