Author : Carrie C. Yakola
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 2009-09
Category : Planets
ISBN : 1434352757
Join Clayton as he explores the planets, our solar system and questions whether there is life in space.
Author : Clayton C. Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534110748
"Astronaut Clayton Anderson lived aboard the International Space Station--and while he didn't mail letters home, imagine if he did! These letters are full of weird science, wild facts, and outrageous true stories from life in space. Backmatter includes even more information on space, astronauts, and living among the stars"--
Author : Glenn J. MacPherson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 1501508504
Volume 68 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry reviews Oxygen in the Solar System, an element that is so critically important in so many ways to planetary science. The book is based on three open workshops: Oxygen in the Terrestrial Planets, held in Santa Fe, NM July 20-23, 2004; Oxygen in Asteroids and Meteorites, held in Flagstaff, AZ June 2-3, 2005; and Oxygen in Earliest Solar System Materials and Processes (and including the outer planets and comets), held in Gatlinburg, TN September 19-22, 2005. As a consequence of the cross-cutting approach, the final book spans a wide range of fields relating to oxygen, from the stellar nucleosynthesis of oxygen, to its occurrence in the interstellar medium, to the oxidation and isotopic record preserved in 4.56 Ga grains formed at the Solar System's birth, to its abundance and speciation in planets large and small, to its role in the petrologic and physical evolution of the terrestrial planets. Contents: Introduction Oxygen isotopes in the early Solar System - A historical perspective Abundance, notation, and fractionation of light stable isotopes Nucleosynthesis and chemical evolution of oxygen Oxygen in the interstellar medium Oxygen in the Sun Redox conditions in the solar nebula: observational, experimental, and theoretical constraints Oxygen isotopes of chondritic components Mass-independent oxygen isotope variation in the solar nebula Oxygen and other volatiles in the giant planets and their satellites Oxygen in comets and interplanetary dust particles Oxygen and asteroids Oxygen isotopes in asteroidal materials Oxygen isotopic composition and chemical correlations in meteorites and the terrestrial planets Record of low-temperature alteration in asteroids The oxygen cycle of the terrestrial planets: insights into the processing and history of oxygen in surface environments Redox conditions on small bodies, the Moon and Mars Terrestrial oxygen isotope variations and their implications for planetary lithospheres Basalts as probes of planetary interior redox state Rheological consequences of redox state
Author : Willy Benz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401141460
The workshop "From Dust to Terrestrial Planets" was initiated by a working group of planetary scientists invited to ISSI by Johannes Geiss in November 1997. The group split to focus on three topics, one of which was the history of the early solar system, including the formation of the terrestrial planets in the inner solar system. Willy Benz, Gunter Lugmair, and Frank Podosek were invited to convene planetary scientists, astrophysicists, and cosmochemists to synthesize the current knowledge on the origin and evolution of our inner planetary system. The convenors raised the interest of scientists from all over the world in the detailed assessment of the available astronomical, chronological, geochemical and dynamical constraints of the first period of inner solar system evolution. In partic ular, this included appraisal of the newest results from astronomical observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Infrared Space Observatory, and other space and ground-based facilities of solar-like systems and nebular disks, possibly repre senting early stages of the solar accretion disk and planet formation. At the same time, the current models of the origin, evolution, transport, and accretion processes of circum stellar disks were presented. This included the new insights provided by the recent discovery of extrasolar giant planets, which were considered insofar as they are relevant to the overall dynamics of the inner part of the solar system.
Author : Clayton C. Anderson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2015-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803277318
What's it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts "take out the trash" on a spacewalk, tightly encapsulated in a space suit with just a few layers of fabric and Kevlar between them and the unforgiving vacuum of outer space? The Ordinary Spaceman puts you in the flight suit of U.S. astronaut Clayton C. Anderson and takes you on the journey of this small-town boy from Nebraska who spent 167 days living and working on the International Space Station, including nearly forty hours of space walks. Having applied to NASA fifteen times over fifteen years to become an astronaut before his ultimate selection, Anderson offers a unique perspective on his life as a veteran space flier, one characterized by humility and perseverance. From the application process to launch aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, from serving as a family escort for the ill-fated Columbia crew in 2003 to his own daily struggles--family separation, competitive battles to win coveted flight assignments, the stress of a highly visible job, and the ever-present risk of having to make the ultimate sacrifice--Anderson shares the full range of his experiences. With a mix of levity and gravitas, Anderson gives an authentic view of the highs and the lows, the triumphs and the tragedies of life as a NASA astronaut.
Author : Lewis
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 1984-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080954642
Planets and Their Atmospheres: Origin and Evolution
Author : Clayton Bess
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 1992-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780780715103
An African child is told several stories about the moon, but he still feels he has not learned the truth.
Author : R. Kallenbach
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 37,88 MB
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402011771
Proceedings of an ISSI Workshop, 14-18 January 2002, Bern, Switzerland
Author : Dante S. Lauretta
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0816546592
They range in size from microscopic particles to masses of many tons. The geologic diversity of asteroids and other rocky bodies of the solar system are displayed in the enormous variety of textures and mineralogies observed in meteorites. The composition, chemistry, and mineralogy of primitive meteorites collectively provide evidence for a wide variety of chemical and physical processes. This book synthesizes our current understanding of the early solar system, summarizing information about processes that occurred before its formation. It will be valuable as a textbook for graduate education in planetary science and as a reference for meteoriticists and researchers in allied fields worldwide.
Author : H. J. Melosh
Publisher : Annual Reviews
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN :
