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Principles of astronomy / editor, Donald R. Franceschetti.
ISBN:
9781619259492
Title:
Principles of astronomy / editor, Donald R. Franceschetti.
Author:
Franceschetti, Donald R., 1947- editor.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations.
Series:
Principles of

[Principles of science]

Principles of science.
Contents:
Ablation -- Accretion disks -- Aerospace design -- Aerospace propulsion -- Agamemnon: 911 Agamemnon -- Amor asteroid group: 1221 Amor -- Amor asteroids -- Annefrank: 5535 Annefrank -- Apollo asteroid group: 1862 Apollo -- Apollo asteroids -- Aquarius -- Aries -- Asteroids -- Astrochemical reaction models -- Astronomical image processing -- Astrophysics -- Aten asteroids -- Aten asteroids: 2062 Aten -- Atmospheric opacity -- Ball of light particle model -- Black holes -- Blazars -- Bolide -- Bremsstrahlung radiation -- Cancer -- Canis Major -- Canis Minor -- Capricornus -- Cassiopeia -- Celestial mechanics -- Centaur -- Ceres: 1 Ceres -- Ceto: 65489 Ceto -- CNO Cycle -- Coma (Comet anatomy) -- Combustion in space -- Comet anatomy -- Compton scattering -- Constellations -- Core navigation system -- Corona Australis -- Corona Borealis -- Cosmic inflation -- Crux -- Crystal spectroscopy -- Curiosity -- Dactyl: (243) Ida I Dactyl -- Dark energy -- Dark matter -- Dawn mission -- Deep-space navigation -- Dysnomia: (136199) Eris I Dysnomia -- Earth -- Earth-imaging satellites -- 136199 Eris -- 433 Eros -- Fireball -- Fuel systems -- Galaxy types -- Galileo (ESA) -- Gas-grain models -- Gas-phase models -- Gemini -- GLONASS -- GPS -- Hertzsprung gap -- High-mass stars -- Hubble's galaxy classification -- Hydrogen cloud -- International Space Station (ISS) -- Interstellar chemistry -- Inverse Compton scattering -- (216) Kleopatra -- Kleopatra's moons: (216) Kleopatra I Alexhelios and II Cleoselene -- Koronis asteroids: 243 Ida -- Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) -- Langmuir-Hinshelwood model -- Laser bees -- Launch vehicle aerodynamics -- Leo -- Libra -- Mars -- Mass attenuation coefficients -- Mercury -- Messier catalog -- Milky Way's structure -- Mir -- Moon impacts (General) -- Morgan-Keenan classification system (MK or MKK) -- Near Shoemaker -- NEOWISE -- Neptune -- Neutrino astrophysics -- Neutron star -- Nucleosynthesis -- Nucleus (Comet anatomy) -- OB stars -- Orbit plotting -- Orion -- 4450 Pan -- Particle acceleration -- Phorcys: (65489) Ceto I Phorcys -- Photometry -- Pisces -- Planet spin-orbit coupling -- Plasma physics -- Pluto -- Quark star -- Quasar (quasi-stellar radio source) -- Red giant -- Rocket engines and rocketry -- Sagittarius -- Scattered disk objects (SDOs) -- Scorpius -- 90377 Sedna -- Space navigation systems -- Space robotics -- Space transportation systems -- Space-time properties -- Sputnik space program -- Star structure -- Star-forming regions -- Stellar classification -- Stellar population mapping -- Stellar remnants -- Sub-brown dwarfs -- Supernova remnants -- Tail (Comet anatomy) -- Taurus -- Theoretical astrophysics -- Three-body problem -- Trans-Neptunian objects -- Trojan asteroids -- Ursa Major -- Ursa Minor -- Venus -- 4 Vesta -- Virgo -- Wormholes -- XMM-Newton.
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Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
Ipswich, Massachusetts :

Salem Press,

[2016]