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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “roger dymock”
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  • Asteroids and Dwarf Planets and How to Observe Them

    by Roger Dymock ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Dwarf planets (which were formerly called asteroids except for the planet Pluto), and the smaller Solar System bodies still called asteroids today, are making front page news, particularly those that are newly discovered and those that might present a hazard to life on Earth by impacting our planet. In this age of giant telescopes and space probes, these small Solar System bodies have advanced ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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  • Solar System Astrophysics

    Background Science and the Inner Solar System

    by Eugene F. Milone, William J.F. Wilson ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The second edition of Solar System Astrophysics: Background Science and the Inner Solar System provides new insights into the burgeoning field of planetary astronomy. As in the first edition, this volume begins with a rigorous treatment of coordinate frames, basic positional astronomy, and the celestial mechanics of two and restricted three body system problems. Perturbations are treated in the ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Intelligent Life in the Universe

    Principles and Requirements Behind Its Emergence

    by Peter Ulmschneider ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book addresses all scientists and others interested in the origins, development and fate of intelligent species in the observable part of our universe. In particular, the author scrutinizes what kind of information about extraterrestrial intelligent life can be inferred from our own biological, cultural and scientific evolution and the likely future of mankind. The first part of the book ... Read more

    $80.19 CAD

  • Living Among Giants

    Exploring and Settling the Outer Solar System

    by Michael Carroll ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The outer Solar System is rich in resources and may be the best region in which to search for life beyond Earth. In fact, it may ultimately be the best place for Earthlings to set up permanent abodes. This book surveys the feasibility of that prospect, covering the fascinating history of exploration that kicks off our adventure into the outer Solar System.Although other books provide surveys of ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Space Manifold Dynamics

    Novel Spaceways for Science and Exploration

    Edited by Ettore Perozzi, Sylvio Ferraz-Mello ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science

    $192.99 CAD

  • Titan from Cassini-Huygens

    Edited by Robert Brown, Jean Pierre Lebreton, Hunter Waite ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book is one of two volumes meant to capture, to the extent practical, the sci- ti? c legacy of the Cassini–Huygens prime mission, a landmark in the history of pl- etary exploration. As the most ambitious and interdisciplinary planetary exploration mission ? own to date, it has extended our knowledge of the Saturn system to levels of detail at least an order of magnitude beyond that gained ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Planetary Exploration and Science: Recent Results and Advances

    Edited by Shuanggen Jin, Nader Haghighipour, Wing-Huen Ip ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This contributed monograph is the first work to present the latest results and findings on the new topic and hot field of planetary exploration and sciences, e.g., lunar surface iron content and mare orientale basalts, Earth’s gravity field, Martian radar exploration, crater recognition, ionosphere and astrobiology, Comet ionosphere, exoplanetary atmospheres and planet formation in binaries. By ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Moon's Near Side Megabasin and Far Side Bulge

    by Charles Byrne ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Since Luna and Lunar Orbiter photographed the far side of the Moon, the mysterious dichotomy between the face of the Moon as we see it from Earth and the side of the Moon that is hidden has puzzled lunar scientists. As we learned more from the Apollo sample return missions and later robotic satellites, the puzzle literally deepened, showing asymmetry of the crust and mantle, all the way to the ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Mars

    From Myth and Mystery to Recent Discoveries

    by Markus Hotakainen ...
    MARS ON OUR MINDS No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own . . . – Herbert George Wells: War of the Worlds (1898) Yes, they would. And they did, actually very firmly. In the last years of the nineteenth century it was almost an established fact that ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Weird Worlds

    Bizarre Bodies of the Solar System and Beyond

    by David A. J. Seargent ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    “Weird Worlds” is the third book in David Seargent’s “Weird” series. This book assumes a basic level of astronomical understanding and concentrates on the “odd and interesting” aspects of planetary bodies, including asteroids and moons. From our viewpoint here on Earth, this work features the most unusual features of these worlds and the ways in which they appear “weird” to us. Within our own ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Planets in Binary Star Systems

    Edited by Nader Haghighipour ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In 1988, in an article on the analysis of the measurements of the variations in the radial velocities of a number of stars, Campbell, Walker, and Yang reported an - teresting phenomenon;the radial velocity variations of Cephei seemed to suggest the existence of a Jupiter-like planet around this star. This was a very exciting and, at the same time, very surprising discovery. It was exciting because ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Discovering the Cosmos with Small Spacecraft

    The American Explorer Program

    by Brian Harvey ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in 1958. Sixty years later, it is the longest continuously running space program in the world, demonstrating to the world how we can explore the cosmos with small spacecraft. Almost a hundred Explorers have already been launched.Explorers have made some of the fundamental discoveries of the Space Age. ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD