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Don't bother searching the night sky for Neptune without a telescope. It's the only planet that can't be seen with the naked eye. Explore the planet farthest from the sun in this book about Neptune.
Author : Nancy Loewen
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1543595812
Don't bother searching the night sky for Neptune without a telescope. It's the only planet that can't be seen with the naked eye. Explore the planet farthest from the sun in this book about Neptune.
Author : John A. Eddy
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780160838088
" ... Concise explanations and descriptions - easily read and readily understood - of what we know of the chain of events and processes that connect the Sun to the Earth, with special emphasis on space weather and Sun-Climate."--Dear Reader.
Author : Noah Brockman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1499403747
Stormy Neptune is the farthest planet from the Sun. The book explores Neptune’s orbit and rotation, its moons, and its most interesting features, including its rocky rings. Brilliant full color photos accompany easy-to-follow text from the Voyager 2 mission along with detailed illustrations to help bring exploring this faraway planet much closer to home.
Author : Clyde W. Tombaugh
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0811766640
An adventure in scientific discovery Pluto, the farthermost planet in the solar system, some 3,673 million mites from the Sun, was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in 1930. The fiftieth anniversary of Pluto's discovery will be celebrated in 1980 and OUT OF THE DARKNESS: THE PLANET PLUTO tells the exciting scientific story of the twenty-five year search for a planet X beyond Neptune, and its discovery-the only planet found in the twentieth century. The planets Mercury, Venus. Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were all known since antiquity. Then Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, and 65 years later, in 1846, Johann Calle and Urbain le Verner discovered Neptune. Variations in orbital perturbations of the planets and theoretical astronomy were responsible for predicting and discovering the three outermost planets (Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) and so Pluto's story is also, to some extent, the story of its planetary neighbors. What kind of world is Pluto? Much is still a mystery (its exact size, for instance), but there are some facts. It takes 247.7 years for Pluto to revolve around the sun. From Pluto's surface, the Sun appears as a star-like point; giving only on-one-hundredth the light Earth receives, although it is still brighter than a full Moon. There is strong evidence to suggest that Pluto is an escaped satellite of Neptune, a sister moon of Triton that wandered off to become the farthermost planet revolving around the Sun. And the recent discovery of Pluto’s moon, Charon, and the speculation on a tenth planet beyond Pluto add to the mystery that still prevails 50 years after coauthor Clyde Tombaugh exclaimed “That’s it!” when he saw the change of position of a faint object on the photographic plates after examining millions of star images. That evening, the only man alive to discover a planet, went to the movies and saw Gary Cooper in The Virginian. The night sky was cloudy when he came out of the theatre, but his mind’s eye still saw the faint image of Pluto.
Author : Jim Bell
Publisher : Dutton
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1101983892
The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission— told by a scientist who was there from the beginning. --Publisher
Author : Thomas K. Adamson
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2015-08
Category : Neptune (Planet)
ISBN : 149145900X
"Discusses the planet Neptune, including observations by ancient cultures, current knowledge of Neptune, and plans for future scientific research and space exploration"--
Author : Mack van Gageldonk
Publisher : Mack's World of Wonder
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2018-07
Category : Planets
ISBN : 9781605373812
Provides an introduction to the planets, stars, comets, and meteors that can be found in the solar system.
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 144245993X
When the prince of Enlad declares the wizards have forgotten their spells, Ged sets out to test the ancient prophecies of Earthsea.
Author : Tahir Yaqoob
Publisher : New Earth Labs
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2011-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 0974168920
An unprecedented number of planets outside of the solar system have been found, with an explosion in the number of discoveries in recent years. Find out what has been happening in this rapidly advancing arena of human exploration, what these extrasolar planets are like, and why some traditional ideas face being thrown out.
Author : Samuel Glasstone
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780353172951
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