... More comprehensive than any book currently available, it starts with Earth's nearest neighbor, the moon, and then goes on to explore each planet in the solar system, asteroids, meteors, comets and the sun. ...
... These papers investigate the effects of asteroid and comet impacts on a diversity of biological and evolutionary processes including the survival of organics and microbial ecosystems to the extinction of organisms. ...
... challenges kids to explore the planets and other celestial bodies for themselves through activities such as building a model of a comet using soil, molasses, dry ice, and window cleaner; or creating their own reentry vehicle to safely return an egg to ...
... This book is part of Chelsea House's "The Solar System" series, which includes the titles Asteroids, Meteorites, and Comets; The Earth and the Moon; Jupiter and Saturn; Mars; The Sun, Mercury, and Venus; and Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and the Outer Solar ...
... the pressure regime of 0.5 - 200 GPa and temperature range of 500 - 5000 K include such varied phenomena as comet collisions, synthesis of super-hard materials, detonation and combustion of energetic materials, and organic conversions in the interior of ...
... Much of the book is devoted to a series of chapters describing in turn the Sun, each of the planets, and the groups of small bodies (asteroids, comets, meteorites, and Kuiper Belt and Centaur objects). ...
... I doubt if many could determine the orbital elements of a passing comet and predict its future path based on three positional measurements without a good deal of study. ...
... While the Littlefield collection does include some interesting British types of World War II and later - the Churchill, Comet, Valentine, and Centurion - these are not yet restored to a suitable standard for photography in this book. ...