UID:
almafu_9959402773502883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-28858-7
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1-316-30931-2
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1-316-32269-6
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1-316-32603-9
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1-316-32937-2
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1-316-33271-3
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1-107-66038-6
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1-107-44789-5
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1-316-31933-4
Inhalt:
Where do asteroids come from and what are they made of? What clues do they hold about the evolution of the Solar System? Scientists have catalogued hundreds of thousands of asteroids, and many are thought to contain water and amino acids, the building blocks of life. Michael Shepard tells the fascinating story of their discovery, and what they can tell us about the history of our own planet. He describes how we find and study asteroids, what they look like through the eyes of powerful telescopes and spacecraft, and plans for future sample return missions. This timely book interweaves accessible scientific explanations with historical background and personal narrative, providing an engaging read for anyone curious about asteroids and what they may mean for our future - both as threats and opportunities.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Brief list of asteroid andmeteorite terms; 1 It's a small world; Train Station Six; Kepler, Bode, and the gap; The gap widens; Piazzi plugs the gap; Discovery of Eros and the near-Earth asteroids; An interlude: Amors, Apollos, Atens, Atiras, Apoheles, and Vulcanoids; The return of Achilles and the Trojans; The tutor of Achilles; The underworld; Pluto: Asteroid? Planet? Some of both?; El Bizarro? No, Elst-Pizarro; Naming; 2 A night at the zoo; Sacred ground; The tool box; Cameras
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The resolution wallMeasuring brightness: The magnitude scale; Phase angle effects; Glowing cinders; WISE mission; Going to class; Dividing the flock: C's and S's; Learning the alphabet; The spread; 3 It came from outer space; The ice field, Antarctica; Pallas; Chladni: Intuition and luck; Howard finds nickel; From Earth, Moon, or space?; Petrographic microscope; Rain of fire; Eyes that see; Ears that hear; Murchison, Australia; Life?; 4 A day at the museum; Haviland, Kansas; Falls and finds; Rocks: In general; The meteorite family tree; Parent bodies; Types of chondrites; Ordinary chondrites
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Carbonaceous chondritesEnstatite chondrites; Grading the class; Achondrites; Howardites-eucrites-diogenites; Super PACs; Aubrites, aka enstatite achondrites; Exotics; Stony-irons; Irons; SNCs aka snicks; Pieces of the Moon; Stones within stones: Breccias and xenoliths; Space weathering; The power of Q; Making connections; 5 The gambler's fallacy; The awakening; Chelyabinsk, Russia; Craters, volcanoes, and the problem of big meteorites; Showdown at Coon Butte; Barringer; Mountains fall from the sky; Fractals and power laws; Tunguska, Russia; The boundary; Chicxulub, Mexico
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6 Remembrance of things pastIn the hood; The age of things; Dating by decay; The rules of dating; Patterson dates the first meteorites ... and the Earth; The fingerprint detection kit; Exposed; Clusters; A great cataclysm; The oldest things; Xenon and stellar stowaways; The best guess: What really happened; Solar nebula; The diaspora; 7 The ties that bind; False dawn; Ellipses and orbits; Professor Kirkwood's gaps; Secular resonance; Highway in the sky; Light versus gravity; Yarkovsky; Professor Hirayama's time machine; Dust to dust; The truth about Veritas; 8 Terra incognita
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Arecibo Radar ObservatoryIn the path of shadows; Adaptive optics; Lightcurves; Shapes from lightcurves; The observatories; Radar love; A continuous wave; Radar eyes; Shapes from radar; Twins!; YORP!; A Poor Man's Mission; 9 To your scattered bodies go; A NEAR abort; Galileo visits Gaspra and Ida; Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR); NEAR becomes NEAR-Shoemaker; Instrument package; NEAR-Shoemaker results; NEAR sees 253 Mathilde; Rosetta flies by Steins and Lutetia; Deep Impact: A hit and run on Comet Tempel 1; The Muses Sea; Instrument package; Hayabusa results; Dawn at Vesta
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Instrument package
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-316-31599-1
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-06144-X
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107447899
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