Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 5927900747
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Voyager 1: Time of Prediction and Time of Name–day
Author: Mystery lays in the Center of Galaxy
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9785927900770
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
cosmologia nova
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9785275017649
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Astronomy Media Workbook
Author: Michael LoPrestoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780805387551
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This workbook has been revised and expanded to include a wider selection of assignable instructive media activities and projects from The Astronomy Place and Voyager: SkyGazer, College Edition v3.4 planetarium software.
Astronomy Media Workbook for The Cosmic Perspective, The Essential Cosmic Perspective
Author: Michael C. LoPrestoPublisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN: 9780805395938
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This revised and expanded popular media workbook is provided with all new copies of Bennettrsquo;s book and includes a wide selection of in-depth activities using resources from The Astronomy Place and Voyager: SkyGazer, College Edition v3.6 planetarium software. These thought-provoking projects are suitable for the lab or as assignable homework assignments.
Origins of NASA Names
Author: Helen T. WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Time-variable Phenomena in the Jovian System
Author: M. J. S. BeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jupiter (Planet)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Celestial Shadows
Author: John WestfallPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1493915355
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 727
Book Description
Much of what is known about the universe came from the study of celestial shadows. This book looks in detail at the way eclipses and other celestial shadows have given us amazing insights into the nature of the objects in our solar system and how they are even helping us discover and analyze planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. A variety of eclipses, transits, and occultations of the mooons of Jupiter and Saturn, Pluto and its satellite Charon, asteroids and stars have helped astronomers to work out their dimensions, structures, and shapes - even the existence of atmospheres and structures of exoplanets. Long before Columbus set out to reach the Far East by sailing West, the curved shadow of the Earth on the Moon during a lunar eclipse revealed that we inhabit a round world, a globe. More recently, comparisons of the sunlit and Earthlit parts of the Moon have been used to determine changes in the Earth's brightness as a way of monitoring possible effects in cloud coverage which may be related to global warming. Shadows were used by the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes to work out the first estimate of the circumference of the Earth, by Galileo to measure the heights of the lunar mountains and by eighteenth century astronomers to determine the scale of the Solar System itself. Some of the rarest and most wonderful shadows of all are those cast onto Earth by the lovely "Evening Star" Venus as it goes between the Earth and the Sun. These majestic transits of Venus occur at most two in a century; after the 2012 transit, there is not a chance to observe this phenomenon until 2117, while the more common sweep of a total solar eclipse creates one of the most dramatic and awe-inspiring events of nature. Though it may have once been a source of consternation or dread, solar eclipses now lead thousands of amateur astronomers and "eclipse-chasers" to travel the globe in order to experience the dramatic view under "totality." These phenomena are among the most spectacular available to observers and are given their full due in Westfall and Sheehan's comprehensive study.
The Interstellar Age
Author: Jim BellPublisher: Dutton
ISBN: 1101983892
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission— told by a scientist who was there from the beginning. --Publisher
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