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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Christopher Cokinos

THERE’S ANOTHER REASON FOR the frenzy: A self-described “long-haired rock and roller” with a mailbox shaped like a rocket and a persona as subtle as a fireball. Robert Haag—The Meteorite ...

mobi |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:1

Chapter Seven The light surrounding them became an opaque wall that shut out the curious priesthood and left them in a column of privacy that relieved the tiny bit of ...