Exoplanets : diamond worlds, super Earths, pulsar planets, and the new search for life beyond our so...
Exoplanets : diamond worlds, super Earths, pulsar planets, and the new search for life beyond our so...
Exoplanets : diamond worlds, super Earths, pulsar planets, and the new search for life beyond our solar system / Michael Summers, James Trefil.
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Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2017]
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G 2017/2019
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English
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218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Not your grandfather's galaxy -- Our backyard -- A plurality of worlds -- What is a planet? -- The Kepler spacecraft -- 55 Cancri E : diamond world -- Haven : rogue planet -- Ice world -- Kepler 186f : super Earth, archipelago world -- Gliese 1214b : water world -- Life on Earth -- The search for ex...
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Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2017]
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District of Columbia
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[2017]
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"The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the sheer number of exoplanets is their variety. I...
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Exoplanets : diamond worlds, super Earths, pulsar planets, and the new search for life beyond our solar system / Michael Summers, James Trefil.
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Includes index.
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©2017
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G 2017/2019
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74VKVaqmlOGA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaqmlOGA
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1588345947 hardcover
9781588345943 hardcover
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523.24
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991024100009902626
