Comet Hale Bopp

Author : Alan Hale
Publisher : High Lonesome Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everybody's Comet written by Alan Hale and published by High Lonesome Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovered in July 1995 by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, Comet Hale-Bopp was the brightest comet ever seen at its distance. This gives the history of its discovery, explains how to view it from fall 1996 to spring 1997, and explains the relationship of comets to the birth of our solar system, and to asteroids, meteors and eclipses of the sun and moon.

Author : Robert Burnham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521586368
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comet Hale-Bopp written by Robert Burnham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-28 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to find, view and photograph the comet of the century!

Author : Don Machholz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Observer's Guide to Comet Hale-Bopp written by Don Machholz and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas A. Hockey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781882360147
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comet Hale-Bopp Book written by Thomas A. Hockey and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating introduction to the recently discovered Comet Hale-Bopp that will soon burst onto the celestial scene. The comet will be one of the most-studied and perhaps brightest. It arrives on the heels of other recent comets in the year of the comet. Hockey's book fills the long-standing demand for a guidebook that helps everyone gripped by comet-fever appreciate this spectacular event. It is written in a lucid style for a non-technical readership. Biographical details and first-person quotes from Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, among others, humanize the science behind the comet and capture the feel of what could well-be the astronomical event of the decade. The book provides the reader with charts and tables to locate and observe the comet. Hockey tells the story of the comet's discovery, astronomer's reaction to it, and their preparation for its arrival. It also discusses other famous comets, including Comet Halley, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Comet Hyakutake, and their significance.

Author : Fred Schaaf
Publisher : Copernicus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comet of the Century written by Fred Schaaf and published by Copernicus Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century has been a disappointment, comet-wise, but the object now approaching, Comet Hale-Bopp,bears a striking resemblance to the Great Comet of 1811,the biggest-headed and most enduringly visible comet everknown. Will Hale-Bopp be our Comet of the Century? Inthis book, whose publication is timed to coincide ......

Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139425293
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figments of Reality written by Ian Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-28 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the universe around us a figment of our imagination? Or are our minds figments of reality? In this refreshing new look at the evolution of mind and culture, bestselling authors Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen eloquently argue that our minds necessarily evolved inextricably within the context of culture and language. They go beyond conventional reductionist ideas to look at how the mind is the response of an evolving brain trying to grapple with a complex environment. Along the way they develop new and intriguing insights into the nature of evolution, science and humanity.

Author : Robert Burnham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521646000
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Comets written by Robert Burnham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spectacular and mysterious objects that come and go in the night sky, comets have dwelt in our popular culture for untold ages. As remnants from the formation of the Solar system, they are objects of key scientific research and space missions. As one of nature's most potent and dramatic dangers, they pose a threat to our safety--and yet they were the origin of our oceans and perhaps even life itself. This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of the biggest and most awe-inspiring of all comets: those that have earned the title "Great." Robert Burnham focuses on the Great comets Hyakutake in 1996 and Hale-Bopp in 1997, which gripped attention worldwide because, for many, they were the first comets ever seen. He places these two recent comets in the context of their predecessors from past ages, among them the famous Comet Halley. Great Comets explains the exciting new discoveries that have come from these magnificent objects and profiles the spaceprobes to comets due for launch in the next few years. The book even takes a peek behind Hollywood's science-fiction fantasies to assess the real risks humanity faces from potential impacts of both comets and asteroids. For everyone interested in astronomy, this exciting book reveals the secrets of the Great Comets and provides essential tools for keeping up to date with comet discoveries in the future. Robert Burnham has been an amateur astronomer since the mid-1950s. He has been a senior editor of Astronomy magazine (1986-88) and is the author of many books and CD-ROMS, including Comet Hale-Bopp: Find and Enjoy the Great Comet and Comet Explorer.

Author : Neyda M. Abreu
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128133260
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primitive Meteorites and Asteroids written by Neyda M. Abreu and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primitive Meteorites and Asteroids: Physical, Chemical, and Spectroscopic Observations Paving the Way to Exploration covers the physical, chemical and spectroscopic aspects of asteroids, providing important data and research on carbonaceous chondrites and primitive meteorites. This information is crucial to the success of missions to parent bodies, thus contributing to an understanding of the early solar system. The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective relevant to many fields of planetary science, as well as cosmochemistry, planetary astronomy, astrobiology, geology and space engineering. Including contributions from planetary and missions scientists worldwide, the book collects the fundamental knowledge and cutting-edge research on carbonaceous chondrites and their parent bodies into one accessible resource, thus contributing to the future of space exploration. Presents the most current data and information on the mission-relevant characteristics of primitive asteroids Addresses the physical, chemical and spectral characteristics of carbonaceous chondritic meteorites and the bearings on successful exploration of their parent asteroids Includes chapters on geotechnical properties and resource extraction

Author : Hermann Böhnhardt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401710880
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp written by Hermann Böhnhardt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comet Hale-Bopp defines a milestone event for cometary science: it is the first "really big" comet observed with modern equipment on the ground and from space and due to that; it is considered the new reference object in cometary sciences. At the beginning of a new era in spacecraft exploration of comets and five years after Hale-Bopp's perihelion passage these proceedings of invited and contributed papers for IAU Colloquium 186 "Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp" review the state-of-the-art knowledge on comets, the icy, dusty and most primordial left-overs of the formation disk of our own solar system.

Author : Fred Schaaf
Publisher : Copernicus
ISBN 13 : 9781461219163
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comet of the Century written by Fred Schaaf and published by Copernicus. This book was released on 1996-12-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "His keen astronomical interest bubbles from every page...The book we will still be consulting a decade from now is Schaafs."SKY & TELESCOPE "The book of the century on comets."NORTHERN LIGHTS "The book that will still be useful long after Hale-Bopp has dimmed from view is Schaafs Comet of the Century." SPACE VIEWS "So well written that it will appeal even to the reader who does not know the difference between an asteroid and an adenoid."PATRICK MOORE