Pluto and Charon : ice worlds on the ragged edge of the solar system / Alan Stern, Jacqueline Mitton...
Pluto and Charon : ice worlds on the ragged edge of the solar system / Alan Stern, Jacqueline Mitton...
Pluto and Charon : ice worlds on the ragged edge of the solar system / Alan Stern, Jacqueline Mitton.
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New York : Wiley, c1998.
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T0393322
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English
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xi, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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New York : Wiley, c1998.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c1998.
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Three themes thread this new book. The first concerns the advances made possible by dramatic improvements in ground-based astronomical instrumentation. Second is the revolution in scientific perspective wrought by spacecraft visits to the planets. Stern and Mitton's third theme concerns the cultural revolution that has taken place as humans, born a...
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Pluto and Charon : ice worlds on the ragged edge of the solar system / Alan Stern, Jacqueline Mitton.
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A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-210) and index.
Transferred from N523.482/4.
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c1998.
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T0393322
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74VMb3mj2Kgl
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0471152978 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780471152972 (cloth : alk. paper)
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523.482
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991000778479702626
