A Look at Uranus
Author: Salvatore Tocci
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780531122501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the history and discovery of the planet Uranus.
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Atlas of Uranus
Author: Garry E. Hunt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-03-02
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780521343237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first atlas of Uranus and its satellites; based largely on NASA images obtained by the Voyager 2 mission in 1986.
Uranus
Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2020-07-21
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1250296552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBen Bova, author of Earth, continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System with the science fiction action adventure Uranus, the first of his Outer Planets trilogy. On a privately financed orbital habitat above the planet Uranus, political idealism conflicts with pragmatic, and illegal, methods of financing. Add a scientist who has funding to launch a probe deep into Uranus‘s ocean depths to search for signs of life, and you have a three-way struggle for control. Humans can’t live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a sanctuary above the distant planet Uranus. He invites ”the tired, the sick, the poor“ of Earth to his orbital retreat where men and women can find spiritual peace and refuge from the world. The billionaire who financed Haven, however, has his own designs: beyond the reach of the laws of the inner planets Haven could become the center for an interplanetary web of narcotics, prostitution, even hunting human prey. Meanwhile a scientist has gotten funding from the Inner Planets to drop remote probes into the “oceans” of Uranus, in search of life. He brings money and prestige, but he also brings journalists and government oversight to Haven. And they can’t have that. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Uranus
Author: Josepha Sherman
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780761445586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJourney into space and find out all there is to know about Uranus.
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
Author: Robin Kerrod
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780822539087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the characteristics of the three most distant planets in the solar system--Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them
Author: Richard Schmude, Jr.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-06-29
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0387766022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is for two groups of people: those who want to study the remote planets with amateur astronomical equipment, and those who are just interested in learning about our knowledge of the remote planets. The Remote Planets, and How to Observe them is unique in that it gives a completely up-to-date summary of our current knowledge of the remote planets, and also explains how amateur astronomers can contribute to our knowledge of the remote planets. Readers are given some inspiring examples of people who, with modest commercially-made equipment, have made important contributions to our scientific knowledge. The observational section goes into great detail, including optical and CCD photometry, occultation measurements, imaging (including stacking and enhancement techniques) and polarization measurements. There are finder charts (from 2010 to 2026), complete with two sets of star-magnitudes in an appendix (one set of magnitudes are for photoelectric photometry and the other set is for visual photometry)
The Neptune File
Author: Tom Standage
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Neptune File tells the story of the gifted mathematician John Couch Adams and the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846. Combining scientific triumph with international controversy, this is an intriguing tale of the search for an unseen planet, and the uproar it caused. More than just an intriguing historical yarn, Adam's work signified the beginning of a new era of planet hunting by providing astronomers with a powerful tool with which to search for new worlds. It marked the genesis of the idea that astronomers could find new planets by looking for their telltale gravitational influence on other bodies, rather than observing them directly with telescopes. In recent years this approach has led to an extraordinary series of discoveries - today's planet detectives are relying on a technique whose theoretical foundations were laid by their nineteenth-century predecessors.
Uranus
Author: Seymour Simon
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1990-08-22
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0688099297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces, through text and photographs, the characteristics of the seventh planet in the solar system.
Planets Beyond
Author: Mark Littmann
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780486436029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book serves as a fascinating progress report on the outer solar system, offering a way to better appreciate the newest findings. It unlocks some of the mysteries surrounding Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto — from the drama of their discoveries to the startling results of Voyager 2’s historic 1989 encounter with Neptune.
Inside Uranus
Author: Stewart Bruce
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-07-25
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781500288860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHold on to your sides for the third and funniest instalment of 'The Uranus' space romp trilogy. Journey with the villainous Dr. D'Eath as he threatens to kill the dead people of Lom. Unsuccessful, he moves on to rush the procrastinators of Askme and falls madly in lust with Nyps, so aptly named for her big feet. Meanwhile our hero, Roy, enjoys a few adventures of his own. News of his exploits in the Dead Zone have spread throughout the galaxy and there are those who need his help. Part of his deal with Nev of the Dead Zone was to find Zak from the 'Kidz Alright' and to get him to do a gig in exchange for the release of all their prisoners. With both Zak and Nev aboard the Artois there is a final showdown with Dr. D'Eath and Roy uses the Architect's T.I.T.S. to thwart him, or was it his T.W.A.T? And so the opening three books of our trilogy are done. A book of just over 100,000 words; seasoned with humour and social comment and spiced with a hint of adult language, well quite a bit of that actually.
