Download or read book When the Moon Fell Out of Orbit written by Shelley Sacks and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book When the Moon Fell written by Morrison M. Colladay and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What If the Earth Had Two Moons written by Neil F. Comins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What if?" questions stimulate people to think in new ways, to refresh old ideas, and to make new discoveries. In What If the Earth Had Two Moons, Neil Comins leads us on a fascinating ten-world journey as we explore what our planet would be like under alternative astronomical conditions. In each case, the Earth would be different, often in surprising ways. The title chapter, for example, gives us a second moon orbiting closer to Earth than the one we have now. The night sky is a lot brighter, but that won't last forever. Eventually the moons collide, with one extra-massive moon emerging after a period during which Earth sports a Saturn-like ring. This and nine and other speculative essays provide us with insights into the Earth as it exists today, while shedding new light on the burgeoning search for life on planets orbiting other stars. Appealing to adult and young adult alike, this book is a fascinating journey through physics and astronomy, and follows on the author's previous bestseller, What if the Moon Didn't Exist?, with completely new scenarios backed by the latest astronomical research.

Download or read book When the Moon Fell written by M. J. Bowman and published by Makayla Bowman. This book was released on 2022-04-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, Opal White disappeared, leaving behind her best friend, Kaiya Abbott, to cope with her disappearance. Fast forward to 2020, in which disaster hangs in the balance. The moon's orbit is tightening closer and closer to Earth and scientists project that it will make contact that summer. Can Kaiya find Opal and graduate high school before the moon crashes into Earth and the tides swallow her home and her hope?

Download or read book Physics for Future Presidents written by Richard Muller and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the science behind the headlines in this work that outlines the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power, and the reality of global warming.

Download or read book The Big Splat or How Our Moon Came to Be written by Dana Mackenzie and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesis This lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a successful theory of the birth of the Moon. Science journalist Dana Mackenzie traces the evolution of this theory, one little known outside the scientific community: a Mars-sized object collided with Earth some four billion years ago, and the remains of this colossal explosion-the Big Splat-came together to form the Moon. Beginning with notions of the Moon in ancient cosmologies, Mackenzie relates the fascinating history of lunar speculation, moving from Galileo and Kepler to George Darwin (son of Charles) and the Apollo astronauts, whose trips to the lunar surface helped solve one of the most enigmatic mysteries of the night sky: who hung the Moon? Dana Mackenzie (Santa Cruz, CA) is a freelance science journalist. His articles have appeared in such magazines as Science, Discover, American Scientist, The Sciences, and New Scientist.

Download or read book The Forge of God written by Greg Bear and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This doomsday masterpiece from the author of Eon and Hull Zero Three was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards. On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw finds an error in the geological records of Death Valley. A cinder cone was left off the map. Could it be new? Or, stranger yet, could it be artificial? The answer may be lying beside it—a dying Guest who brings devastating news for Edward and for Planet Earth. As more unexplained phenomena spring up around the globe—a granite mountain appearing in Australia, sounds emanating from the earth’s core, flashes of light among the asteroids—it becomes clear to some that the end is approaching, and there is nothing we can do. In The Forge of God, award-winning author Greg Bear describes the final days of the world on both a massive, scientific scale and in the everyday, emotional context of individual human lives. Facing the destruction of all they know, some people turn to God, others to their families, and a few turn to saviors promising escape from a planet being torn apart. Will they make it in time? And who gets left behind to experience the last moments of beauty and chaos on earth? Nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards, The Forge of God is an engrossing read, breathtaking in its scope and in its detail.

Download or read book When the Earth Had Two Moons written by Erik Asphaug and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world’s most innovative planetary geologists. In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon. Even in their poor resolution, the images stunned scientists: the far side is an enormous mountainous expanse, not the vast lava-plains seen from Earth. Subsequent missions have confirmed this in much greater detail. How could this be, and what might it tell us about our own place in the universe? As it turns out, quite a lot. Fourteen billion years ago, the universe exploded into being, creating galaxies and stars. Planets formed out of the leftover dust and gas that coalesced into larger and larger bodies orbiting around each star. In a sort of heavenly survival of the fittest, planetary bodies smashed into each other until solar systems emerged. Curiously, instead of being relatively similar in terms of composition, the planets in our solar system, and the comets, asteroids, satellites and rings, are bewitchingly distinct. So, too, the halves of our moon. In When the Earth Had Two Moons, esteemed planetary geologist Erik Asphaug takes us on an exhilarating tour through the farthest reaches of time and our galaxy to find out why. Beautifully written and provocatively argued, When the Earth Had Two Moons is not only a mind-blowing astronomical tour but a profound inquiry into the nature of life here—and billions of miles from home.

Download or read book A PAIL OF AIR written by FRITZ LEIBER and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-06-03 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pretty soon I was feeling my familiar way through the thirty or so blankets and rugs Pa has got hung around to slow down the escape of air from the Nest, and I wasn't quite so scared. I began to hear the tick-ticking of the clocks in the Nest and knew I was getting back into air, because there's no sound outside in the vacuum, of course. But my mind was still crawly and uneasy as I pushed through the last blankets — ..FROM THE BOOK..

Download or read book Lunar Sourcebook written by Grant Heiken and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1991-04-26 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only work to date to collect data gathered during the American and Soviet missions in an accessible and complete reference of current scientific and technical information about the Moon.

Download or read book Sydney Omarr s Day by Day Astrological Guide for the Year 2013 Scorpio written by Trish MacGregor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LET THE STARS BRIGHTEN YOUR 2013 WITH LOVE, HAPPINESS, HEALTH, AND SUCCESS! Whether you’re seeking a sparkling new romance, a bold career move, or stellar success, this remarkable guide will help you take control of your destiny and make your dreams come true. Here are the year’s picks and predictions, along with 18 months of exciting, on-target daily horoscopes—from July 2012 to December 2013. You will also discover: • What your rising sign says about your personality • How to use the moon and planets for health and well-being • How to use the stars for help with money matters • Online astrology and how to use it • How to heat up your love life with the stars as your guide —And much more! SYDNEY OMARR’S® Day-by-Day Astrological Guide for SCORPIO / 2013 October 23-November 21

Download or read book Leaving Orbit written by Margaret Lazarus Dean and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, a breathtaking elegy to the waning days of human spaceflight as we have known it In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream has ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled to Cape Canaveral for NASA's last three space shuttle launches in order to bear witness to the end of an era. With Dean as our guide to Florida's Space Coast and to the history of NASA, Leaving Orbit takes the measure of what American spaceflight has achieved while reckoning with its earlier witnesses, such as Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, and Oriana Fallaci. Along the way, Dean meets NASA workers, astronauts, and space fans, gathering possible answers to the question: What does it mean that a spacefaring nation won't be going to space anymore?

Download or read book Sydney Omarr s Day by Day Astrological Guide for the Year 2013 Leo written by Trish MacGregor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LET THE STARS BRIGHTEN YOUR 2011 WITH LOVE, HAPPINESS, HEALTH, AND SUCCESS! Whether you’re seeking a sparkling new romance, a bold career move, or stellar success, this remarkable guide will help you take control of your destiny and make your dreams come true. Here are the year’s picks and predictions, along with 18 months of exciting, on-target daily horoscopes—from July 2012 to December 2013. You will also discover: • What your rising sign says about your personality • How to use the moon and planets for health and well-being • How to use the stars for help with money matters • Online astrology and how to use it • How to heat up your love life with the stars as your guide —And much more! SYDNEY OMARR’S® Day-by-Day Astrological Guide for LEO / 2013 July 23-August 22

Download or read book Sydney Omarr s Day by Day Astrological Guide for the Year 2013 Taurus written by Trish MacGregor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LET THE STARS BRIGHTEN YOUR 2013 WITH LOVE, HAPPINESS, HEALTH, AND SUCCESS! Whether you’re seeking a sparkling new romance, a bold career move, or stellar success, this remarkable guide will help you take control of your destiny and make your dreams come true. Here are the year’s picks and predictions, along with 18 months of exciting, on-target daily horoscopes—from July 2012 to December 2013. You will also discover: • What your rising sign says about your personality • How to use the moon and planets for health and well-being • How to use the stars for help with money matters • Online astrology and how to use it • How to heat up your love life with the stars as your guide —And much more! SYDNEY OMARR’S® Day-by-Day Astrological Guide for TAURUS / 2013 April 20-May 20

Download or read book Countdown to Yesterday written by Shirley Marr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Stead’s The List of Things That Will Not Change gets a “Space Oddity” sci-fi twist in this moving middle grade novel about one boy’s journey to go back in time to prevent his parents’ divorce. The present is the last place James wants to be. Since his parents have separated, he’s been living two different lives and neither of them add up to the great one he used to have. He thinks about his Top Six memories and wonders if he can go back. During National Science Week, James meets the enigmatic Yan, a girl who looks at the world with x-ray eyes, and discovers that time travel might be possible after all. The two budding scientists’ quest to restore James’s lost past brings them into contact with retro Australian Women’s Weekly birthday cakes, old Commodore computers, chaotic rideshare vehicles of the future, and spacemen. But as they get closer to their goal, James is forced to consider that his favorite moments from his personal history may not be as perfect as he remembers them.

Download or read book Sydney Omarr s Day by Day Astrological Guide for the Year 2013 Aries written by Trish MacGregor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LET THE STARS BRIGHTEN YOUR 2013 WITH LOVE, HAPPINESS, HEALTH, AND SUCCESS! Whether you’re seeking a sparkling new romance, a bold career move, or stellar success, this remarkable guide will help you take control of your destiny and make your dreams come true. Here are the year’s picks and predictions, along with 18 months of exciting, on-target daily horoscopes—from July 2012 to December 2013. You will also discover: • What your rising sign says about your personality • How to use the moon and planets for health and well-being • How to use the stars for help with money matters • Online astrology and how to use it • How to heat up your love life with the stars as your guide —And much more! SYDNEY OMARR’S® Day-by-Day Astrological Guide for ARIES / 2013 March 21-April 19

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