Solar system: the Sun and planets

Archaean terrains contain a wealth of structural, stratigraphic, textural, mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic features allowing insights into the nature of the early Earth.

The book introduces readers to the concept of weightlessness and microgravity, and presents several examples of microgravity research in fluid physics, the material sciences and human physiology.

The first comprehensive introduction to the dynamics of the Solar System - includes free Internet Mathematica® software package.

This book relates the history of asteroid discoveries and christenings, from those of the early pioneering giants of Hersehel and Piazzi to modern-day amateurs.

This textbook addresses students and practitioners.

A fascinating historical account of the emergence and development of the new interdisciplinary field of deep carbon science.

The present book provides a contemporary systematic treatment of shock waves in high-temperature collisionless plasmas as are encountered in near Earth space and in Astrophysics.

A long-time avid amateur astronomer living in Massachusetts, Chaple profiles the Jovian planets, that is the gas giants and their many moons, but not the former planet Pluto.

The updated and expanded third edition of this book focuses on the multi-disciplinary coupling between flight-vehicle hardware alternatives and enabling propulsion systems.

A comprehensive, up-to-date overview of all important topics in exoplanet research, ideal for astronomy and planetary science researchers entering the field.

The range of solar sailing is very vast; it is a fully in-space means of propulsion that should allow us to accomplish various mission classes that are literally impossible using rocket propulsion, no matter if nuclear or electric.

Essential Astrophysics is a book to learn or teach from, as well as a fundamental reference volume for anyone interested in astronomy and astrophysics.

A self-contained graduate-level introduction to the physical processes that shape planetary systems, covering all stages of planet formation.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

GIOTTO, das spektakulärste Raumprojekt seit der Mondlandung und ein Glanzstück der europäischen Raumforschung, wird von dem versierten Autor Nigel Calder spannend dargestellt.

This book is for everyone curious about the Sun and how it has been perceived throughout human history, including the modern scientific view.

This book presents recent advances in the area of Radioscience, Equatorial Atmospheric Science and Environment from the international symposium for equatorial atmosphere of the celebration of the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) 20th Anniversary, conducted by Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) and Kyoto University, in 2021.

In this book, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from a technological perspective.

A unique handbook for amateur and professional astronomers explains the causes of meteor showers on Earth.

The existence of soft excess emission originating from clusters of galaxies, de ned as em- sion detected below 1 keV in excess over the usual thermal emission from hot intracluster gas (hereafter the ICM) has been claimed since 1996.

The margravial court astronomer Simon Marius, was involved in all of the new observations made with the recently invented telescope in the early part of the seventeenth century.

IAU Transactions are published as a volume corresponding to each General Assembly.

This book explores the dynamics of planetary and stellar fluid layers, including atmospheres, oceans, iron cores, and convective and radiative zones in stars, describing the different theoretical, computational and experimental methods used to study these problems in fluid mechanics, including the advantages and limitations of each method for different problems.

This book is based on an initiative made by the European Space Policy Institute, the European Centre for Space Law and the German Aerospace Center.

In the first chapters the author describes how our knowledge of the position of Earth in space and time has developed, thanks to the work of many generations of astronomers and physicists.

This book describes the discovery of quasicrystals (icosahedral and decagonal) in an extraterrestrial rock from the Koryak Mountains of Far Eastern Russia.

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This book is primarily concerned with the computational aspects of predictability of dynamical systems - in particular those where observations, modeling and computation are strongly interdependent.

Space telescopes are among humankind's greatest scientific achievements of the last fifty years.

This book covers all the key concepts, relationships, and ideas behind spaceflight and is the perfect companion for students pursuing courses on, or related to, astronautics.

This book clearly explains the processes of making ultracondensed matter using dynamic compression, and provides an overview of research in this field.

Comet nuclei are the most primitive bodies in the solar system.

A definitive reference on the Dawn mission and its results, covering the formation and evolution of the asteroid belt.

Earth's magnetic field is currently changing dramatically.

Praxis Log of Manned Spaceflight 1961-2006 will open with a section entitled: Quest for Space, which will provide an explanation of the methods employed to get in and out of orbit and brief overviews of the different international space programmes.

An Exciting and Authoritative Account of the Second Golden Age of Solar System Exploration Award-winning author Peter Bond provides an up-to-date, in-depth account of the sun and its family in the 2nd edition of Exploring the Solar System.

Reviews the fundamentals for studying chemical compositions of planetary atmospheres and ionospheres, for graduate students and researchers.

This book describes prominent technological achievements within a very successful space science mission: the Herschel space observatory.

This two-part book is devoted to classic fundamentals and current practices and perspectives of modern plasma astrophysics.

This book presents the first-ever comprehensive analysis of ASEAN space development programs.

The first Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics took place from August 23 to August 28, 1999, at the Noda campus of the Sci- ence University of Tokyo in Noda-city and Sawayaka Chiba Kenmin Plaza in Kashiwa-city, a suburb of Tokyo close to the Narita-Tokyo International Air- port, with the Frontier Research Center for Computation Sciences (FRCCS) of the Science University of Tokyo as the host institute.

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This book presents the current state of research on disk oscillation theory, focusing on relativistic disks and tidally deformed disks.

The book covers intimately all the topics necessary for the development of a robust magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code within the framework of the cell-centered finite volume method (FVM) and its applications in space weather study.

This book offers an enlightening analysis of the ways in which the communication of space explorations has evolved in response to political and social developments and the availability of new media and communication tools.

In May 1961, President John F.