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The New Worlds. Extrasolar Planets.
Casoli, Fabienne; Encrenaz, Therese
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Description for The New Worlds. Extrasolar Planets.
Paperback. Offering an engaging story of the hunt for new worlds, this book examines the range of extrasolar planets that have been discovered during the past decade and looks at what can be learned about such planets by studying the bodies in our own solar system. Series: Springer-Praxis Books. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 169 x 12. Weight in Grams: 402.
Exoplanet, extrasolar planet, exoEarth, exojupiter: neologisms still absent from many dictionaries. These terms are, however, current among astronomers, and are heard in their answers to a question already two millennia old: are there planets like ours elsewhere in the Universe? Greek atomists such as Epicurus were convinced of the existence of an infinite number of solar systems like our own, but it was only in 1995 that a real answer began to emerge. An extrasolar planet had been detected... a planet orbiting another star... a star like the Sun. So, the solar system was not unique! By mid- 2006 more ... Read more
Exoplanet, extrasolar planet, exoEarth, exojupiter: neologisms still absent from many dictionaries. These terms are, however, current among astronomers, and are heard in their answers to a question already two millennia old: are there planets like ours elsewhere in the Universe? Greek atomists such as Epicurus were convinced of the existence of an infinite number of solar systems like our own, but it was only in 1995 that a real answer began to emerge. An extrasolar planet had been detected... a planet orbiting another star... a star like the Sun. So, the solar system was not unique! By mid- 2006 more ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Series
Springer-Praxis Books
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387449067
SKU
V9780387449067
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Reviews for The New Worlds. Extrasolar Planets.
From the reviews: "The story … told in this translation of a French book in vivid language and with plenty of colour illustrations, with careful, explanations of terms to make the account accessible to non-specialists. … this book is a great introduction to the exciting topic of planetary systems beyond our own." (Fred Taylor, BBC ... Read more