Author: Sky & Telescope
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Sky & Telescope has produced [this booklet] for inexpensive mass distribution, especially to young people. It's meant to be the public's foolproof guide to finding the comet on any date it can be seen at all. The instructions require no knowledge of astronomy and avoid such words as "altitude" and "azimuth", but will enable anyone to locate the coment fairly accurately."--Undated letter from Alan MacRobert, Sky Publishing Corporation (stapled to back cover of LHL copy.)
Mr. Halley's Comet
Author: Sky & Telescope
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Sky & Telescope has produced [this booklet] for inexpensive mass distribution, especially to young people. It's meant to be the public's foolproof guide to finding the comet on any date it can be seen at all. The instructions require no knowledge of astronomy and avoid such words as "altitude" and "azimuth", but will enable anyone to locate the coment fairly accurately."--Undated letter from Alan MacRobert, Sky Publishing Corporation (stapled to back cover of LHL copy.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Sky & Telescope has produced [this booklet] for inexpensive mass distribution, especially to young people. It's meant to be the public's foolproof guide to finding the comet on any date it can be seen at all. The instructions require no knowledge of astronomy and avoid such words as "altitude" and "azimuth", but will enable anyone to locate the coment fairly accurately."--Undated letter from Alan MacRobert, Sky Publishing Corporation (stapled to back cover of LHL copy.)
Exploration of Halley’s Comet
Author: Michael Grewing
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642829716
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1005
Book Description
The 1985/86 apparition of Halley's Comet turned out to be the most important apparition of a comet ever. It provided a worldwide science community with a wealth of exciting new discoveries, the most remarkable of which was undoubtedly the first image of a cometary nucleus. Halley's Comet is the brightest periodic comet, and the most famous of the 750 known comets. With its 76-year period, its recent appearance was truly a "once-in-a-lifetime" observational opportunity. The 1985/86 apparition was the thirtieth consecutive recorded apparition. Five apparitions ago, the English astronomer Edmond Halley discovered the periodicity of "his" comet and correctly predicted its return in 1758, a triumph for science best appreciated in the context of contemporary views, or rather fears, about comets at that time. The increasingly rapid progress in technological development is very much apparent when one compares the dominant tools for cometary research during Halley's next three apparitions: in 1835 studies were made based on drawings ofthe comet; in 1910 photographic plates were used; while in March 1986 an armada of six spacecraft from four space agencies approached the comet and carried out in situ measurements, 1 AU from the Earth. In 1910, nobody could have dreamed that this was possible, and today it is equally difficult to anticipate what scientists will be able to achieve in 2061.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642829716
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1005
Book Description
The 1985/86 apparition of Halley's Comet turned out to be the most important apparition of a comet ever. It provided a worldwide science community with a wealth of exciting new discoveries, the most remarkable of which was undoubtedly the first image of a cometary nucleus. Halley's Comet is the brightest periodic comet, and the most famous of the 750 known comets. With its 76-year period, its recent appearance was truly a "once-in-a-lifetime" observational opportunity. The 1985/86 apparition was the thirtieth consecutive recorded apparition. Five apparitions ago, the English astronomer Edmond Halley discovered the periodicity of "his" comet and correctly predicted its return in 1758, a triumph for science best appreciated in the context of contemporary views, or rather fears, about comets at that time. The increasingly rapid progress in technological development is very much apparent when one compares the dominant tools for cometary research during Halley's next three apparitions: in 1835 studies were made based on drawings ofthe comet; in 1910 photographic plates were used; while in March 1986 an armada of six spacecraft from four space agencies approached the comet and carried out in situ measurements, 1 AU from the Earth. In 1910, nobody could have dreamed that this was possible, and today it is equally difficult to anticipate what scientists will be able to achieve in 2061.
Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Halley's Comet
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Category : Halley's comet
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Category : Halley's comet
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Memoirs
Author: Royal Astronomical Society
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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The Observatory
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
The Comet is Coming!
Author: Nigel Calder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780880290470
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
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ISBN: 9780880290470
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Knowledge...
Author: Edwin Sharpe Grew
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Boys' Life
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.