Bibliographic Details
| Author / Creator: | Boice, Daniel Craig, 1953- author.
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| Imprint: | San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2019]
Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2019]
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| Description: | 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).
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| Language: | English |
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| Series: | [IOP release 6]
IOP concise physics, 2053-2571
IOP (Series). Release 6.
IOP concise physics.
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| Format: | E-Resource
Book
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| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12385489 |
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Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Comets in the twenty-first century.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Hockey, Thomas A., author.
Huebner, W. F. (Walter F.), 1928- writer of foreword.
Morgan & Claypool Publishers, publisher.
Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9781643274461
9781643274447
9781643274430
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| Notes: | "Version: 20190401"--Title page verso.
"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Also available in print.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.
Daniel C. Boice is the principal astronomer at Scientific Studies & Consulting in San Antonio, TX. His professional activities include over 75 peer-reviewed research papers and several hundred conference reports. In 2000, he became a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Thomas Hockey is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Northern Iowa. He has written seven previous books including Galileo's Planet and How We See the Sky. Hockey was Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning Biographical Encyclopaedia of Astronomers.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 6, 2019).
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| Summary: | The purpose of this book is to bring comets into the living rooms of general households, to familiarize politicians with these fascinating objects when they ponder funding for comet research, to teach children and young students and to provide teaching tools about these very unusual objects in our skies. The presentation is very comprehensive in its description of orbits around the Sun, the development of the coma (escaping atmosphere) from a comet's nucleus and source of all activities, various types of comet tails, trailing as well as leading as a comet orbits our Sun, ancient beliefs and explanations of these phenomena and the most recent discovery of the first interstellar comet.
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| Target Audience: | General readership; beginning/undergraduate, appropriate for all levels.
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| Other form: | Print version: 9781643274430
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| Standard no.: | 10.1088/2053-2571/ab027e
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