Издательство: School Specialty Publishing
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 0769642594
Количество страниц: 64
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
A must-have for any young researcher! Just the Facts Solar System is a fact-by-fact look at our solar system, from planet Earth to Pluto and beyond. This important reference guide features statistics on every astrological body, with full-color charts, diagrams, photographs, and illustrations. Perfect for any school report! Features: High quality photographs and illustrations Quick-to-use visual format Detailed glossary and index Our popular Just the Facts series provides the most up-to-date information available, presented in a unique easy-reference system of lists, fact boxes, tables, and charts that are cross-referenced and indexed. This series features titles that cover important subjects taught in school, such as the human body, inventions and discoveries, people of the world, the prehistoric world, the solar system, and the world atlas. Collect all of the Just the Facts titles for your researcher!
Автор: Prabhakar Gondhalekar
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год издания: 2001
isbn: 0521803160
Количество страниц: 368
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Gravity is one of the most inexplicable forces of nature, controlling everything, from the expansion of the Universe to the ebb and flow of ocean tides. The search for the laws of motion and gravitation began more than two thousand years ago, a quest that Prabhakar Gondhalekar recounts in The Grip of Gravity. Beginning with Aristotle and concluding with Planck, Gondhalekar outlines a 'genealogy' of gravity and lucidly explains how previous explanations have shaped the most recent development in the field, string theory. In this work, physicist and astronomer Gondhalekar describes experiments, both planned and proposed, and clearly explains natural phenomena like ocean tides, seasons, ice ages, the formation of planets, stars, and exotic objects like black holes and neutron stars, which are all controlled by gravity. Including anecdotes and thumb-nail sketches of the personalities involved, The Grip of Gravity provides an introduction to the foundation of modern physics and shows how the current developments in string theory may lead to a new and radical interpretation of gravity. Prabhakar Gondhalekar is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College, London. Until his retirement in 1998, he was the head of the Space Astronomy Group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, where he had been a researcher for 18 years. His research has included a number of topics in galactic and extragalactic astronomy, with his major work focusing on the interstellar medium and active galactic nuclei. Gondhalekar has been awarded Royal Society, Leverhulme Trust, and NATO Research Fellowships to do research in universities in the United States and Israel.
Автор: C. Aerts, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, D.W. Kurtz
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2010
isbn: 1402051786
Количество страниц: 866
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
The recent research domain of asteroseismology studies the internal structure of stars, which is not directly observable, through the interpretation of the frequency spectra of stellar oscillations. The basic principles of asteroseismology are very similar to those developed by earth seismologists. Stellar interiors can be probed from oscillations because different oscillation modes penetrate to different depths inside the star. Asteroseismology is the only available method to derive the internal structure of the stars with high precision. This book – the first on asteroseismology – offers a practical guide for graduate students and scientists working in stellar astrophysics. It provides a general introduction to asteroseismology and comprehensive coverage of all its aspects: fundamental theory, observations and observational techniques, methodology of data analysis and seismic interpretations of various classes of multi-periodic pulsating stars.
Автор: Gregory Vogt
Издательство: Lerner Publications
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 0761341579
Количество страниц: 48
Язык: english
Формат: DJVU
A lively and informative look at the dwarf planet Pluto, from its discovery to the recent controversy over its status as a planet. The book describes Pluto's place in the solar system, its moons, its orbit, what we know of its physical features and the difficulties scientists encounter in studying this mysterious body.
Автор: Peter Bond
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2007
isbn: 0387402128
Количество страниц: 325
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
This book recounts the epic saga of how we as human beings have come to understand the Solar System. The story of our exploration of the heavens, Peter Bond reminds us, began thousands of years ago, with the naked-eye observations of the earliest scientists and philosophers. Over the centuries, as our knowledge and understanding inexorably broadened and deepened, we faltered many times, frequently labored under misconceptions, and faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles to understanding. Yet, despite overwhelming obstacles, a combination of determined observers, brilliant thinkers, courageous explorers, scientists and engineers has brought us, particularly over the last five decades, into a second great age of human discovery. At our present level of understanding, some fifty years into the Space Age, the sheer volume of images and other data being returned to us from space has only increased our appetite for more and more detailed information about the planets, moons, asteroids, and comets of the Solar System. Taking a much-needed overview of how we now understand these "distant worlds" in our cosmic neighborhood, Bond not only celebrates the extraordinary successes of planetary exploration, but reaffirms an important truth: For seekers of knowledge, there will always be more to explore.
Автор: David M. Harland
Издательство: Springer
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 0387681310
Количество страниц: 472
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
David Harland here initiates a series of books on NASA’s Moon Program of the 1960s and early 1970s. Presented chronologically, ‘NASA’s Moon Program – The Early Years’ will outline the Mercury and Gemini manned missions, the unmanned lunar probes and the Apollo missions leading up to Apollo 11, covering that mission only as a postscript. ‘The First Men on the Moon – The Story of Apollo 11,’ released in 2006 is devoted solely to that mission. ‘Apollo – The Definitive Sourcebook,’ published in 2006, covered all the missions, including the unmanned tests, in an encyclopedic style which included many facts and figures. ‘Exploring the Moon – The Apollo Expeditions,’ published in 1999, focused on the final three Apollo missions, and covered only their activities on the lunar surface. A fully re-illustrated second edition with color illustrations was released in 2008. The individual mission books in this series will relate to the planning, flight and results, and are written in the same style as ‘The First Men on the Moon – The Story of Apollo 11,’ i.e. using dialog from the in-flight transcripts (including some conversations never broadcast) to bring their stories to life. David Harland will later cover the other five missions that landed on the Moon, concluding by 2012 – the 40th anniversary of the ‘last’ Apollo mission. Each of the Apollo missions that reached the Moon gets its own book-lenth account covering planning, the flight, and the scientific results. This series will become the definitive account of the Apollo era. It will give the Springer/Praxis list unrivaled coverage of the Apollo era of space exploration. Plans are already in the works for a return to the Moon by 2020 to create a Moonbase
Автор: Стивен П. Маран
Издательство: Диалектика
Год издания: 2006
isbn: 5-8459-0612-0, 0-7645-5155-8
Количество страниц: 256
Язык: русский
Формат: DJVU
В этой книге в простой и доступной форме излагаются основы астрономических знаний. Вы совершите увлекательное путешествие по Вселенной и узнаете, как определять планеты и звезды, как исследовать солнечную систему, Млечный Путь и Вселенную за его пределами, что такое Большой Взрыв, квазары, антиматерия и многое другое, как присоединиться к Программе поиска внеземного разума (SETI). Вам станет понятнее смысл современных исследований Космоса. Вы также узнаете, с чего начать при наблюдении неба, и какое оборудование для этого необходимо. Книга предназначена для широкого круга читателей.
Автор: Черкасов И.И., Шварев В.В.
Издательство: Недра
Год издания: 1975
Количество страниц: 143
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF
Еще несколько лет назад ученые говоря о грунте Луны ограничивались умозрительными заключениями. С развитием космонавтики наука получила экспериментальную базу для изучения поверхности естественного спутника Земли. В книге дается обзор развития представлений о лунном грунте за последние двадцать лет, излагаются способы исследования грунта непосредственно на Луне, даются сведения о наземных лабораториях и их научном оборудовании для изучения образцов грунта доставленных с Луны.
Автор: Шень А
Издательство: МЦНМО
Год издания: 2009
isbn: 978-5-94057-551-1
Количество страниц: 48
Язык: русский
Формат: PDF
Разбираются основные вопросы космографии: как движутся звёзды по небу, отчего бывают зима и лето, почему Луна видна в форме серпа, когда и как происходят затмения. Помимо сведений об устройстве окружающей действительности, книга содержит задачи для самостоятельного решения.
Asteroids and Meteorites: Catastrophic Collisions With Earth
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Автор: Timothy, Ph.D. Kusky
Издательство: Facts on File
Год издания: 2008
isbn: 0816064695
Количество страниц: 130
Язык: english
Формат: PDF
Asteroids and comets are space objects that orbit the Sun. When they enter the Earth's atmosphere, they often make a streak of light known as a meteor, and if they are not burned up in the atmosphere, the remaining rocky or metallic body forms a meteorite. "Asteroids and Meteorites" examines the many craters on Earth that have formed as a result of meteorites or asteroids crashing into the planet, excavating huge holes and wreaking widespread destruction on the landscape. Readers will gain an understanding of the origin of asteroids, meteorites, and comets, including where they are located in the solar system and different models for their origin. Coverage also includes the physical processes that occur during the impact of these objects with the Earth along with the specific hazards associated with large and small impacts such as earthquakes, giant tsunamis, and global firestorms. Loaded with black-and-white photographs and line illustrations, as well as an index, glossary, sidebars, and further reading, this comprehensive resource is essential for middle and high school students.
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