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Satellites / edited by Joseph A. Burns, Mildred Shapley Matthews ; with 45 collaborating authors.
LIBRA QB401 .S38 1986
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Space science series
- Space science series.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Satellites--Congresses.
- Satellites.
- Satellites--Brightness.
- Satellites--Crust.
- Satellites--Electric properties.
- Satellites--Exploration.
- Satellites--Exploration (Jewish theology).
- Satellites--Figure.
- Satellites--Internal structure.
- Satellites--Libration.
- Satellites--Magnetic properties.
- Satellites--Mass.
- Satellites--Mythology.
- Satellites--Origin.
- Satellites--Phases.
- Satellites--Religious aspects.
- Satellites--Rising and setting.
- Satellites--Rotation.
- Satellites--Surfaces.
- Satellites--Temperature and radiation.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- x, 1021 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (one folded) : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1986]
- Summary:
- "This is the 12th book in the University of Arizona Space Science Series, a burgeoning library destined to stand as the consummate literary legacy of our era's revolution in Solar System exploration. . . . Satellite science has matured rapidly since its rebirth in March 1979, and its vitality radiates from the pages of this fine volume."--"Icarus"
- Notes:
- "Based on a conference, Natural satellites, Colloquium 77 of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) held at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, from July 5 to 9, 1983"--Pref.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 917-979.
- ISBN:
- 0816509832
- OCLC:
- 14001237
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