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Deep Impact as a World Observatory Event
Springer 2008; US$ 129.99In the context of the NASA Deep Impact space mission, comet 9P/Tempel1 has been at the focus of an unprecedented worldwide long-term multi-wavelength observation campaign. This book includes the proceedings of a meeting that brought together an audience of theoreticians and observers to make full use of the ground-based observing data set. more...
A Catalog of Comets
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 261.00Fourth volume of multi-volume catalog of every comet observed throughout history, this volume covers comets seen from 1933 to 1959. more...
Meteors and How to Observe Them
Springer 2008; US$ 34.95Explains how best to view meteor activity under a variety of conditions, regardless of the observer's location. Instead of focusing on just one region in the world, this book includes observing conditions for four different regions such as high northern latitudes, low northern latitudes, equatorial regions, and low southern latitudes. more...
The Tungus Event, or The Great Siberian Meteorite
Algora Publishing 2010; US$ 21.95Something exploded above Siberia in 1908 and no one is quite sure what ? or why. What burned 830 square miles of forest and some 30 million trees on a fine summer's morning? This book combines a hard popular science approach and lively description of the "Tungus event", giving the reader the stories of... more...
Comets and How to Observe Them
Springer 2010; US$ 27.99Comets have inspired wonder, excitement and even fear ever since they were first observed. But they are important members of the solar system, that contain material from early in the life of the system, held in deep-freeze. This makes them key in our understanding of the formation and evolution of many Solar System bodies. Recent ground- and space-based... more...
David Levy's Guide to Observing Meteor Showers
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 23.00Introduction to observing meteors for both seasoned and budding astronomers. more...
The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 74.00Sixteen chapters from international experts provide the standard reference on the event for graduate students and researchers in astronomy and planetary science. more...
Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 72.50This is a comprehensive and richly illustrated textbook on the astrophysics of the interstellar and intergalactic medium--the gas and dust, as well as the electromagnetic radiation, cosmic rays, and magnetic and gravitational fields, present between the stars in a galaxy and also between galaxies themselves. Topics include radiative processes across... more...
Physics of Comets
World Scientific Publishing Company 2010; US$ 156.00This revised edition places a unique emphasis on all the new results from ground-based, satellites and space missions - detection of molecule H2 and prompt emission lines of OH for the first time; discovery of X-rays in comets; observed diversity in chemical composition among comets; the puzzle of the constancy of spin temperature; the well-established... more...
Molecular Hydrogen in Space
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 155.00The first multi-disciplinary review of our new understanding of molecular hydrogen in space, and its role in the early Universe. more...









