The wandering astronomer
Drawing on the author's knowledge and direct experience of the key events in astronomy and space exploration, this book takes a sideways look at the historical reports and contemporary thought behind a range of astronomical topics. It includes a collection of essays that cover various things fr...
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Bristol
Institute of Physics Pub.
1999
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Table of Contents:
- The Atmosphere of the Moon.
- The Man Who Discovered a Planet.
- Moon in Shadow.
- The Zodiacal Intruder.
- Fishing Hipparcos Down.
- The Past and Future Moon.
- Visitor to the Acres Vallis.
- Harvest Moons, Wolf Moons and Blue Moons.
- The Cosmic Zebra. Flying Saucers in Selsey.
- Gene Shoemaker.
- The Blackness of Mathilde.
- Hitch-Hider and Others.
- Ice on the Moon?.
- Mira Stella.
- The Case of the Vanishing Planets.
- Poetic Moons.
- A Lightning Decision!.
- The Strange Case of SS Lacertae.
- How the Lunar Craters Weren't Formed.
- The Lonely Brown Dwarf.
- Sister Marie and Others.
- To Catch a Comet.
- Curious Callisto.
- A year on Icarus.
- The Lighter Side of Space.
- Alshain.
- Names in the Sky.
- Travel to the Stars?.
- Ghost Moons.
- Ripples of Creation.
- "Des Res" on Mars?.
- The Edge of the Moon.
- The Sad Case of Dr Elliott.
- Fast Lane to Pluto.
- Life Can Appear but Will it!.
- Thatcher's Comet.
- Apocalypse Postponed.
- The Star in the East.
- It was in the Papers!.
- Caribbean Eclipse.