Solar system: the Sun & planets books

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The New Solar System: Ice Worlds, Moons, and Planets Redefined

The New Solar System: Ice Worlds, Moons, and Planets...

Author: Patricia Daniels ,  Robert Burnham
ISBN: 9781426204623
Format: Hardback
$56.99

A state-of-the-art observation of the solar system as we know it today and a knowledgeable forecast of what to expect...  Read More >>

Treatise on Geophysics, Volume 10: Planets and Moons

Treatise on Geophysics, Volume 10: Planets and Moons...

Author: Tilman Spohn (DLR Institut fur Planetenforschung, Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9780444534651
Format: Paperback
$248.03

Providing a review on the solid planets and the satellites, this volume addresses the interactions of solid surfaces...  Read More >>

Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module

Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module...

Author: Thomas J. Kelly
ISBN: 9781588342737
Format: Paperback
$52.77

This is a first hand account of designing, building, testing and flying the first Apollo lunar module by the engineer...  Read More >>

Exoplanets and Disks: Their Formation and Diversity

Exoplanets and Disks: Their Formation and Diversity...

Author: Tomonori Usuda ,  Motohide Tamura
ISBN: 9780735406957
Format: Paperback
$596.64

Protoplanetary disks around young stars are the sites of planetary formation. Recent high spatial resolution observations...  Read More >>

Europa

Europa

Author: Robert T. Pappalardo ,  William B. McKinnon
ISBN: 9780816528448
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Europa is the foundation upon which the coming decades of scientific advancement and exploration of this icy world...  Read More >>

Saturn

Saturn

Author: Robin Birch
ISBN: 9781604132137
Format: Hardback
$60.72

How big is Saturn? What is Saturn made of? How far is Saturn from the Sun? How many Earth days does it take Saturn...  Read More >>

The Moon

The Moon

Author: Thomas Gwyn Elger
ISBN: 9780217760690
Format: Paperback
$31.39

This book and the accompanying map is chiefly intended for the use of lunar observers but it is hoped it may be...  Read More >>

The Meteorites of Alberta

The Meteorites of Alberta

Author: Anthony J. Whyte ,  Chris Herd
ISBN: 9780888644756
Format: Paperback
$92.27

In-depth examinations into the science and history behind sixteen major Alberta meteorite falls and finds.  Read More >>

The Origin and Dynamics of Solar Magnetism

The Origin and Dynamics of Solar Magnetism

Author: M.J. Thompson ,  A. Balogh
ISBN: 9781441902382
Format: Hardback
$472.56

The book treats all aspects of solar magnetism. Several contributions deal with the solar dynamo, the driver of...  Read More >>

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names: Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2006 - 2008

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names: Addendum to Fifth...

Author: Lutz D. Schmadel
ISBN: 9783642019647
Format: Hardback
$498.96

end of 2005, we had achieved a total of 12,804 named ( According to a resolution of IAU Division III 2000, minor...  Read More >>

Nonlinear Cosmic Ray Diffusion Theories

Nonlinear Cosmic Ray Diffusion Theories

Author: Andreas Shalchi
ISBN: 9783642003080
Format: Hardback
$393.36

If charged particles move through the interplanetary or interstellar medium, they interact with a large-scale magnetic...  Read More >>

Solar Image Analysis and Visualization

Solar Image Analysis and Visualization

Author: Jack Ireland ,  C. Alex Young
ISBN: 9780387981536
Format: Hardback
$498.96

This volume contains papers from the Third Solar Image Processing Workshop, held in Dublin, Ireland in September,...  Read More >>

Guide to the Universe: The Sun

Guide to the Universe: The Sun

Author: David Alexander ,  Timothy F. Slater
ISBN: 9780313340772
Format: Hardback
$109.00

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The Sun Recorded Through History

The Sun Recorded Through History

Author: J.M. Vaquero ,  M. Vázquez
ISBN: 9780387927893
Format: Hardback
$472.56

The study of the long-term behaviour of solar activity may be comp- mented by the study of historical accounts describing...  Read More >>

New Horizons: Reconnaissance of the Pluto-Charon System and the Kuiper Belt

New Horizons: Reconnaissance of the Pluto-Charon System...

Author: C.T. Russell
ISBN: 9780387895178
Format: Hardback
$446.16

Today explorers are going in new directions, not just east and west, north and south. They explore backward in time...  Read More >>

The THEMIS Mission

The THEMIS Mission

Author: James L. Burch ,  Vassilis Angelopoulos
ISBN: 9780387898193
Format: Hardback
$472.56

The build-up (known as the growth phase) occurs because of an interlinking of the geom- netic eld and the solar-wind...  Read More >>

A Performance Assessment of NASA's Heliophysics Program

A Performance Assessment of NASA's Heliophysics Program...

Author: National Research Council ,  Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
ISBN: 9780309136563
Format: Paperback
$55.44

Since the 1990s, the pace of discovery in the field of solar and space physics has accelerated, largely owing to...  Read More >>

Totality: Eclipses of the Sun

Totality: Eclipses of the Sun

Author: Mark Littmann (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee) ,  Fred Espenak (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland)
ISBN: 9780199565528
Format: Paperback
$79.95

A total eclipse of the Sun is the most awesome sight in the heavens. Totality: Eclipses of the Sun takes you to...  Read More >>

The Moon

The Moon

Author: Thomas Gwyn Elger
ISBN: 9781438517933
Format: Paperback
$32.87

This book and the accompanying map is chiefly intended for the use of lunar observers but it is hoped it may be...  Read More >>

The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began

The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington...

Author: Stuart Clark
ISBN: 9780691141268
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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Icy Worlds at the Edge of the Solar System

Icy Worlds at the Edge of the Solar System

Author: Keith Noll
ISBN: 9780387716701
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Details the Kuiper belt, one of the exciting regions for exploration and scientific research in planetary science....  Read More >>

Planets and Planetary Systems

Planets and Planetary Systems

Author: Stephen Eales (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Cardiff, UK)
ISBN: 9780470016930
Format: Paperback
$117.95

Planetary Science is an exciting, fast-moving, interdisciplinary field with courses taught in a wide range of departments,...  Read More >>

Planets and Planetary Systems

Planets and Planetary Systems

Author: Stephen Eales (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Cardiff, UK)
ISBN: 9780470016923
Format: Hardback
$261.95

Planetary Science is an exciting, fast-moving, interdisciplinary field with courses taught in a wide range of departments,...  Read More >>

Measure Solar System Objects and Their Movements for Yourself!

Measure Solar System Objects and Their Movements for...

Author: John D. Clark
ISBN: 9780387895604
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Instead of taking somebody's word for it about the basic size and distance statistics for the solar system, this...  Read More >>

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