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• Meteorites: Messengers from Space

  Meteorites – as well as shooting stars and meteors – result from a collision of a solid body from space with our Earth, but only meteorites are able to penetrate the Earth’s protective shield, the atmosphere, and fall to the Earth’s surface. Before the return of lunar samples, they were the only materials from beyond [...]

• Stars (Collins Gem)

  This full color highly illustrated and engaging compact guide to stars, asteroids, meteors and comets, presents a world of possibility in your pocket. Related posts Cosmic Collisions: The Hubble Atlas of Merging Galaxies How to Choose Specialty Binoculars Galileo in Acapulco – A Theatrical Production for the International Year of Astronomy Stargazers’ Almanac 2011: Monthly [...]

• The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

  This is the absorbing story of Neil de Grasse Tyson’s lifelong fascination with the night sky, a restless wonder that began some thirty years ago on the roof of his Bronx apartment building and eventually led him to become the director of the Hayden Planetarium. A unique chronicle of a young man who at one [...]

• Planetary Landers and Entry Probes

  This book provides a concise but broad overview of the engineering, science and flight history of planetary landers and atmospheric entry probes designed to explore the atmospheres and surfaces of other planets. It covers engineering aspects specific to such vehicles which are not usually treated in traditional spacecraft engineering texts. Examples are drawn from over [...]

• The “Mars Effect”: A French Test of 1 000 Sports Champions

  Scientists often test the claims of astrology. Efforts to prove the claims, invariably, fall short. The one exception, according to backers of astrology, is the work of Michel and Francoise Gauquelin. Despite being strong critics of traditional astrology and horoscopes, the Gauquelins claim to find a correlation between the positions of planets in the heavens, [...]