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The Asteroids; Or Minor Planets Between Mars and Jupiter

Autor: Daniel Kirkwood

Número de Páginas: 47

"The Asteroids; Or Minor Planets Between Mars and Jupiter" by Daniel Kirkwood. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Jupiter

Autor: Gregory Vogt

Número de Páginas: 30

Describes the planet Jupiter and its surface features, atmosphere, rotation, orbit, and moons.

Jupiter Project

Autor: Gregory Benford

Número de Páginas: 182

Matt Bohles was content with the pleasures of low-g life in the Jovian Orbital Lab. Even if a young man did get to feel a bit squeezed, growing up in a tin can 600 million klicks from Mother Earth... But the International Space Administration was losing its patience with the slow advance of science. There was talk of closing down the lab. The Earthside pols wanted publicity, adventure and profits - and not necessarily in that order. So Matt had a bright idea. He figured he'd steal a spacesuit. Grab a spare shuttlecraft. And discover life on Jupiter...

Jupiter

Autor: Fran Bagenal , Timothy E. Dowling , William B. Mckinnon

Número de Páginas: 776

Comprehensive volume that summarizes our understanding of the jovian system.

Jupiter

Autor: William Sheehan , Thomas Hockey

Número de Páginas: 192

Majestic and untwinkling, Jupiter is the grandest of all planets. It is the largest planet in our solar system and among the brightest objects in the night sky. It shines with a noble, steady luster, and its calming presence has inspired humans for centuries. Jupiter was the “beloved star” of the first serious observers of the planets, the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians, and has inspired poetic utterances from eminent writers such as William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman. It also continues to inspire contemporary astronomers and stargazers, and this beautifully illustrated volume brings our understanding of Jupiter right up to date. The scientific study of Jupiter is at a watershed: NASA’s Juno space probe has entered orbit about Jupiter to investigate the planet, while information gleaned from improved telescopes and other robotic explorers in space continues to improve our understanding of the planet’s origin, evolution, and composition. Jupiter provides a concise and expert overview of the history of our observations of this largest of planetary spheres, as well as reports on the much-anticipated initial findings from the Juno space probe. Also incorporating other...

The Secrets of Jupiter

Autor: Thomas K. Adamson

Número de Páginas: 33

"Discusses the planet Jupiter, including observations by ancient cultures, current knowledge of Jupiter, and plans for future scientific research and space exploration"--

Voyage to Jupiter

Autor: David Morrison

Número de Páginas: 216

The Jupiter Theft

Autor: Donald Moffitt

Número de Páginas: 196

The Lunar Observatory on Earth is picking up a very strange and unidentifiable signal from the direction of Cygnus. When the meaning of this signal is finally understood, it clearly spells disaster for Earth. An immense object is rushing toward the Solar System, traveling nearly at the speed of light, its intense nuclear radiation sure to kill all life on Earth within months. As it moves closer the humans can discern that it is an enormous convoy of some sort, nearly as large as a planet. And there is nothing anyone can do to divert such an enormous alien object. Then, unexpectedly, the object changes course and heads toward the dead planet of Jupiter...but what could an enormous alien convoy want with such a useless planet?

Visions of Jupiter

Autor: Tilly Jupiter

Número de Páginas: 35

This book presents three stories of speculation about how things are, might become, and might have been. Taken together they provide a glimpse into my visions of the world. You'll find I live in a strange and absurd world, but so do you; often the world is enjoyable precisely due to that absurdity. I hope reading gives you a chuckle, and then you hesitate and wonder, even for just a moment.? ~~~~~ Excerpt ~~~~~ Once the conflict finally began, the war didn?t last long at all. Our early efforts, our initial salvo, started a dramatic collapse in business. The aliens themselves inadvertently made their situation worse. We were very careful that our campaign didn?t hurt any living beings and we really didn?t want to damage property, but we certainly didn?t stop short of humiliating them. There is a practical limit to how long people will continue going for pizza to places where aircraft are noisily circling near the ceiling while spraying silly string over the food; there's a limit to how often they will go to a burger place where remote-controlled cars attack their ankles and set off stink bombs. We used that intolerance to our advantage. Naturally our enemies spun some of our more...

Project Galileo

Número de Páginas: 12

Jupiter

Autor: Ben Bova

Número de Páginas: 420

Grant Archer only wanted to study astrophysics. But the forces of the "New Morality," the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run 21st-century America, have other plans for him. To his distress, Grant is torn from his young bride and sent to a research station in orbit around Jupiter, to spy on the scientists who work there. Their work may lead to the discovery of higher life forms in the Jovian system-with implications the New Morality doesn't like at all. What Grant's would-be controllers don't know is that his loyalty to science may be greater than his desire for a quiet life. But that loyalty will be tested in a mission as dangerous as any ever undertaken-a mission to the middle reaches of Jupiter's endless atmosphere, a place where hydrogen flows as a liquid, and cyclones larger than planets rage for centuries at a time. What lurks there is more than anyone has counted on...and stranger than anyone could possibly have imagined. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Jupiter Weapon

Autor: Charles Louis Fontenay

Número de Páginas: 16

He was a living weapon of destruction--immeasurably powerful, utterly invulnerable. There was only one question: Was he human?

The First Creatured Mission: An Alternate History of Space Travel

Autor: Tilly Jupiter

Número de Páginas: 12

Although HAM was the first US astronaut, at one point in history it seemed inevitable that the first deep space pilots would be humans. Of course, we know that things didn't work out that way. This is the story as it unfolded, included the real story of Tolan's flight and his dirty jokes. This is the story of space exploration gone different. ~~~~~ Excerpt ~~~~~ In the entire history of space exploration to that time, missions had been divided into "manned" and "unmanned." Given the flights of Ham and Tolan, the nomenclature was clearly misleading and inappropriate. But for the short hops they made, no one had made a fuss about it (and, in the barbaric age of Ham?s flight, the feelings and sensibilities of other primates hadn?t even been seriously considered). The advent of Clyde Ector as the astronaut, and the prestige of the mission?the fact that the craft would be carrying a sentient being who was not a "man" into deep space for the first time?precipitated a new crisis over the mission terminology. You may recall the angst that was aired at the time. Clearly, a change was necessary, as "manned" was inaccurate and no one at all was interested in "primated" missions, especially...

Jupiter and Saturn

Autor: Linda T. Elkins-tanton

Número de Páginas: 241

Explores the orbital movements of Jupiter in the solar system and its internal and external composition, movements, and temperatures, as well as Saturn's ring system. Useful for those interested in understanding the science and history behind the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn, this volume looks into the geological profiles of these planets.

The Jupiter Game

Autor: Todd Mccaffrey

Jupiter!The Russians and the Europeans got there first in their fusion ship Harmonie.At least, that¿s what they thought. Aliens!¿They've matched orbit with us!¿What do they want? What will they do?Ooops...¿Ooops?¿ Jenkins echoed. ¿Aliens go `Ooops¿?¿ The Jupiter Game: A close encounter with aliens who watch Howdy Doody.

Jupiter

The Jupiter Game

Autor: Todd Johnson Mccaffrey

Número de Páginas: 388

The Jupiter Game is a fast-paced, high stakes science fiction adventure following more in the footsteps of Douglas Adams' classic, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" than Murray Leinster's classic "First Contact." A Close Encounter "of the strangest kind" with aliens who go "Oops." Long Book Description The aliens said what we had always hoped to hear: "We welcome you to the Federation of Sentient Worlds.: We said: "You are here to offer us membership in the Federation?" They said: "Membership is automatic for any race which achieves faster-than-light travel." We said: "We don't have faster-than-light travel." They said: "Oops." New York Times bestselling author Todd McCaffrey brings a totally new look at first contact with aliens. "The Jupiter Game starts at a gallop and then picks up speed, as Todd McCaffrey further enhances the family name." Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award Winning Author

Jupiter

Autor: Garry E. Hunt , Patrick Moore , Royal Astronomical Society

Número de Páginas: 104

An atlas of Jupiter and its moons using photographs taken by the Voyager spacecraft and other new information about the giant planet.

Jupiter

Autor: Giles Sparrow

Número de Páginas: 46

These virtual space missions provide close-up information about the position of each planet in the solar system, its path around the Sun, its composition and origin, and its geology. Historical information is given about how the planet was discovered and by whom, as well as details about explorations.

On the Inference of the Physical Properties of the Jovian Atmosphere from Photometry of Eclipses of the Galilean Satellites

Autor: Michael J. Price

Número de Páginas: 68

The frequent eclipses of the Galilean satellites provide an extremely simple yet extremely powerful method for monitoring the physical structure of the Jovian atmosphere in time, latitude, and longitude. In this paper, all theoretical and observational problems involved in the use of these eclipses to scan the Jovian atmosphere are discussed in detail. It is shown that a rather complete knowledge of the structure of the Jovian atmosphere immediately above the cloud layer may be obtained from multicolor photometry of the refraction tails of the ingress light curves of the satellites. The relevant observational data may be obtained readily using currently available ground-based astronomical equipment. This technique for inferring the physical structure of a planetary atmosphere may be applied to Saturn also. In that case, the relatively infrequent eclipses of Titan may be utilized.

Jupiter

Autor: John Carney

Número de Páginas: 0

A slice-of-life story of friends, theater, loneliness, and lost love.

Jupiter

Autor: Tim Goss

Número de Páginas: 36

Learn why Jupiter is known as the King of Planets, how it makes its own heat, its many moons and more.

Jupiter

Autor: Tom Gehrels , Mildred Shapley Matthews

Número de Páginas: 1270

Crítica da razão utópica

Autor: Franz J. Hinkelammert

Número de Páginas: 498

O livro trata da imaginação humana acerca de mundos impossíveis que não envolvem contradições lógicas e que expressam as mais profundas aspirações metafísicas: a plena liberdade, a imortalidade ou um mundo social sem dor e sem miséria. Ademais o fim do século XX e o começo do XXI estão pautados pelo antiutopismo radical. Porém, um mundo humano sem utopias é a utopia daqueles que querem impor um modelo único de vida social.

Jupiter

Autor: Seymour Simon

Número de Páginas: 30

Describes the characteristics of the planet Jupiter and its moons as revealed by photographs sent back by two unmanned Voyager spaceships which took one-and-one half years to reach this distant giant.

Jupiter Laughs

Autor: Edmund Cooper

Número de Páginas: 220

What happened on Judgement Day? Do we have Martian ancestors? Will we blow up the world? In this collection of his best SF stories, Edmund Cooper gives his own inimitably entertaining answers to these and other such intriguing questions. From The Death Watch to The Brain Child, Cooper 'considers possible scenarios'. Sometimes he is serious, sometimes satirical. Sometimes he is uncomfortably close to the truth.

Jason Jupiter

Autor: Albert M. Manaford

Número de Páginas: 528

One night as ten-year-old Jason Jupiter stares into the heavens from his porch swing and dreams of space travel, an object falls out of the sky and vanishes along the horizon, seemingly in close proximity to his house. Overwhelmed with curiosity, Jason decides to investigate without telling his parents. Following the light from the moon, Jason walks through a forest and into a clearing where, to his surprise, he fi nds a damaged spaceship without occupants. After he enters the ship to explore, Jason eventually encounters a small craft inside the cargo bay with a humanoid boy inside. When Jason inquires how to start the tiny spaceship, Michael happily shows him—a decision that quickly sends the boys on a dangerous joyride. After they barely escape the fi ghter jets in pursuit, the boys zoom in the craft to Jason’s house in Los Alamos where they cloak the ship and become friends. Now Jason must determine how to keep Michael and the spaceship a secret from his parents and an undercover government agency with a lofty goal. Jason is about to discover that his adventure has only just begun. Jason Jupiter is the tale of a ten-year-old’s exciting experiences after he stumbles onto a ...

Project Galileo

Número de Páginas: 8