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New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint : Springer, 2013
Abstract/Sommario: Oddities of the Inner Worlds -- Strange Little Worlds – Asteroids and Their Kin -- The Many Moons of the Solar System -- Titan – Weirdest World of Them All? -- Oddities of the Outer Worlds -- Strange Worlds Afar -- Observational Projects. - In Weird Worlds, the author discusses planets where temperatures are so high that it rains molten iron, and others so cold that liquid methane floods across plains of ice! Worlds are described where the lightest element acts like a metal and where w ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Paris : ESA, 2003
S.l.|(Sydney) : s.n.|(Thomas Richards), 1880(stampa 1880)
Dordrecht [etc.] : Kluwer, 1996
Amsterdam : Pergamon Press, 1999
Princeton, N.J. [etc.] : Princeton University Press, 2011
Bologna : Società Italiana di Fisica, 2000
Bologna : Società italiana di fisica, 2000
Bologna : Società Italiana di Fisica, c2000
Abstract/Sommario: The outstanding question in astronomy at the turn of the twentieth century was: What are the stars and why are they as they are? In this volume, the story of how the answer to this fundamental question was unravelled is narrated in an informal style, with emphasis on the underlying physics. Although the foundations of astrophysics were laid down by 1870, and the edifice was sufficiently built up by 1920, the definitive proof of many of the prescient conjectures made in the 1920s and 19 ...; [Leggi tutto...]