Author: James R. Arnold
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Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Summer Workshop on Near-Earth Resources
Author: James R. Arnold
Publisher:
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Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asteroids
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
NASA Scientific and Technical Publications
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Extraterrestrial Materials Processing and Construction
Author:
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Category : Chemical processes
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Three different chemical processing schemes were identified for separating lunar soils into the major oxides and elements. Feedstock production for space industry; an HF acid leach process; electrorefining processes for lunar free metal and metal derived from chemical processing of lunar soils; production and use of silanes and spectrally selective materials; glass, ceramics, and electrochemistry workshops; and an econometric model of bootstrapping space industry are discussed.
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Category : Chemical processes
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Three different chemical processing schemes were identified for separating lunar soils into the major oxides and elements. Feedstock production for space industry; an HF acid leach process; electrorefining processes for lunar free metal and metal derived from chemical processing of lunar soils; production and use of silanes and spectrally selective materials; glass, ceramics, and electrochemistry workshops; and an econometric model of bootstrapping space industry are discussed.
Shoemaker by Levy
Author: David H. Levy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691225370
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
It was a lucky twist of fate when in the early1980s David Levy, a writer and amateur astronomer, joined up with the famous scientist Eugene Shoemaker and his wife, Carolyn, to search for comets from an observation post on Palomar Mountain in Southern California. Their collaboration would lead to the 1993 discovery of the most remarkable comet ever recorded, Shoemaker-Levy 9, with its several nuclei, five tails, and two sheets of debris spread out in its orbit plane. A year later, Levy would be by the Shoemakers' side again when their comet ended its four-billion-year-long journey through the solar system and collided with Jupiter in the most stunning astronomical display of the century. Not only did this collision revolutionize our understanding of the history of the solar system, but it also offered a spectacular confirmation of one scientist's life work. As a close friend and colleague of Shoemaker (who died in 1997 at the age of 69), Levy offers a uniquely insightful account of his life and the way it has shaped our thinking about the universe. Early in his training as a geologist, Shoemaker suspected that it wasn't volcanic activity but rather collisions with comets and asteroids that created most of the craters on the moon and most other bodies in the solar system. Convincing the scientific community of the plausibility of "impact theory," and revealing its power for penetrating mysteries such as the extinction of the dinosaurs and the timing of the Earth's eventual demise, became Shoemaker's mission. Through conversations with Shoemaker and his family, Levy reconstructs the journey that began with a young geologist's serious desire to go to the moon in the late1940s. Sent by the government to find a way to harvest plutonium, Shoemaker instead found evidence in desert craters for what became his impact theory. While he never became an astronaut, he did become the first geologist hired by NASA and subsequently set the research agenda for the first manned lunar landing. After a series of victories and setbacks for Shoemaker, the collision of Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter provided the most convincing proof to date of the role of impacts in our solar system. Levy's explanation of the scientific reasoning that guided Shoemaker in his career up to this dramatic point--as well as his personal portrait of a man who found white-water rafting to be an easy way to relax--sets these fascinating events in a human scale. This biography shows what Shoemaker's legacy will be for our understanding of the story of the Earth well into the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691225370
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
It was a lucky twist of fate when in the early1980s David Levy, a writer and amateur astronomer, joined up with the famous scientist Eugene Shoemaker and his wife, Carolyn, to search for comets from an observation post on Palomar Mountain in Southern California. Their collaboration would lead to the 1993 discovery of the most remarkable comet ever recorded, Shoemaker-Levy 9, with its several nuclei, five tails, and two sheets of debris spread out in its orbit plane. A year later, Levy would be by the Shoemakers' side again when their comet ended its four-billion-year-long journey through the solar system and collided with Jupiter in the most stunning astronomical display of the century. Not only did this collision revolutionize our understanding of the history of the solar system, but it also offered a spectacular confirmation of one scientist's life work. As a close friend and colleague of Shoemaker (who died in 1997 at the age of 69), Levy offers a uniquely insightful account of his life and the way it has shaped our thinking about the universe. Early in his training as a geologist, Shoemaker suspected that it wasn't volcanic activity but rather collisions with comets and asteroids that created most of the craters on the moon and most other bodies in the solar system. Convincing the scientific community of the plausibility of "impact theory," and revealing its power for penetrating mysteries such as the extinction of the dinosaurs and the timing of the Earth's eventual demise, became Shoemaker's mission. Through conversations with Shoemaker and his family, Levy reconstructs the journey that began with a young geologist's serious desire to go to the moon in the late1940s. Sent by the government to find a way to harvest plutonium, Shoemaker instead found evidence in desert craters for what became his impact theory. While he never became an astronaut, he did become the first geologist hired by NASA and subsequently set the research agenda for the first manned lunar landing. After a series of victories and setbacks for Shoemaker, the collision of Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter provided the most convincing proof to date of the role of impacts in our solar system. Levy's explanation of the scientific reasoning that guided Shoemaker in his career up to this dramatic point--as well as his personal portrait of a man who found white-water rafting to be an easy way to relax--sets these fascinating events in a human scale. This biography shows what Shoemaker's legacy will be for our understanding of the story of the Earth well into the twenty-first century.
Future Space Programs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies
Author:
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Category : Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Symposium on the Future of Space Science and Space Applications
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Moon Treaty
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space
Publisher:
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Category : Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
Extraterrestrials
Author: Ben Zuckerman
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521448031
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Experts critically examine the belief that other intelligent life exists in our galaxy.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521448031
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Experts critically examine the belief that other intelligent life exists in our galaxy.