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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Webster, B. Louise
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Dopita, Michael A.
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Book and Living Reference Work (Continuously updated edition)
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Book and Reference Work
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Supernovae and Supernova Remnants: The Big Picture in Low Resolution
A supernova is a star ending its life in a powerful explosion, nearly always leaving behind an expanding gaseous remnant, which has an influence on the surrounding circumstellar and interstellar medium, and po...
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Ruled by the Planets
The orbits of asteroids are controlled by the gravitational pull of the major planets, which pull them together in groups or disperse them from forbidden zones.
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The Fate of Asteroids
What happens to asteroids in the future? Some will be flung from the solar system into the cold of interstellar space. Others will survive the evolution of the Sun though its red giant phase and be swallowed a...
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When the Stars Fell Down
Asteroids are orbiting rocks. Meteors are small dust particles or rocks, which impact on the Earth and burn up in the atmosphere. In some cases astronomers have tracked the direct connections between asteroids...
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The Chaos of the Solar System
Celestial mechanics is the mathematics of the orbits of asteroids and has a reputation for mathematical difficulty, accuracy and foresight. But recent discoveries have shown just how chaotic the orbits of the ...
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My Asteroid, My Book
Asteroids are undeveloped small planets or fragments of planets and constitute an astronomical rubbish heap of evidence about the past history of the solar system, just as an archaeological midden is evidence ...
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Finding Asteroids by Eye
The first asteroids were new planets, found at the start of a new century, viewed as inspiring, newly discovered lands. The discoveries stretched astronomers to implement new techniques and new ways of analysi...
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Naming and Possessing
Naming an asteroid is in some sense a way to possess it, even though asteroids are celestial objects far beyond any terrestrial control. The declaration of a name for an asteroid historically constituted a pub...
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At the Edge of the Solar System
In the twenty-first century, astronomers working with the most sensitive detectors and largest telescopes have developed big data sets from which they have unearthed faint, distant asteroids far beyond what we...
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Finding and Investigating Asteroids Using Technology
The first asteroids were found by chance, but astronomers implemented systematic methods to discover more of them, deploying newly developed detector, information technology, radar and space techniques.
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The Catalog and the Names It Inspires
Modern astronomers have set up controls to systematise data about asteroids and develop naming and cataloguing conventions.
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Filling the Gap
Most asteroids known orbit in the Main Belt, a gap between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. What is the gap? and why is it there?
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Supernovae and Supernova Remnants: The Big Picture in Low Resolution
A supernova is a star ending its life in a powerful explosion, nearly always leaving behind an expanding gaseous remnant, which has an influence on the surrounding circumstellar and interstellar medium, and po...
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Book
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Landscapes on Other Worlds
In 1543, on his deathbed, the Polish cleric Nicholas Copernicus (1473–1543) published his idea that Earth orbited the Sun, not the other way around. Earth was a planet. It was thus like the other planets of th...
