In a new Cold War between Earth and the colonies on Mars, when devastating weapons go missing, there’s only one team you can call – the Outriders. A crack force of highly specialised super-soldiers, their clone bodies are near-immortal. When a fully-autonomous vessel with orbital strike capabilities goes missing, it’s up to the Outriders to track the untrackable. But when the trail leads them to the influential Martian People’s Collective Republic, the operation gets a lot more complicated… File Under: Science Fiction
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When sungrazer comet X2017-Y2 appears in the night sky it is widely celebrated.
The argument raised by Brown and Cooke was swiftly settled by observations. Loyal to his forecast, Cooke traveled to Hawai'i and missed the storm. Asher and Z H R 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 Lyytinen Lyytinen. 57 E. D. Kondrat'eva, ...
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This unique resource covers the entire field of astronomy and astrophysics and this online version includes the full text of over 2,750 articles, plus sophisticated search and retrieval functionality and links to the primary literature.
... Astronomical observations of volatiles on asteroids . In : Michel P , DeMeo FE , Bottke WF ( eds ) Asteroids IV . University of Arizona Press , Tucson , pp 65-87 Russell CT and 27 colleagues ( 2012 ) Dawn at Vesta : test- ing the ...
After presenting a brief overview of the nature of comets and how we came to the modern understanding of comets, this book details the various types of observations that can usefully be carried out at the eyepiece of a telescope.
Newtonian (left) and Schmidt-Cassegrain (right) telescopes. Note how much shorter the Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope is compared to the Newtonian. The Newtonian is on a Dobsonian mount and the Schmidt-Cassegrain is on an equatorial mount ...
Fascinating overview of the most up-to-date knowledge on comets, written for both professionals and amateurs.
"Neither biography, hagiography, or demonization, The Obama Effect provides a refreshingly balanced interrogation of many issues the candidacy and presidency of Barack Obama has unearthed in American society, politics, and...