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The great comet crash : the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter / by Spencer, John R.(John Robert),1957-(CARDINAL)393993; Mitton, Jacqueline.(CARDINAL)319101;

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Asteroids [videorecording] : deadly impact / by Levy, David H.,1948-(CARDINAL)316560; Robertson, Robbie.; Shoemaker, Carolyn.; Shoemaker, Eugene Merle,1928-; Weinrich, Eitan.;

Film editor, Emmanuel Mairesse; music, Mark Adler; art director, Yeorgos Lampathakis. Narrator, Robbie Robertson; comments by Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker and David Levy.Looks at the career of Eugene Shoemaker and how it led to his wife and his discovery of the famous Shoemaker-Levy comet and its spectacular confirmation of asteroid impact craters on earth. MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD, Dolby digital 5.1.

Subjects: Shoemaker, Eugene Merle, 1928-; Asteroids.; Comets.; Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;

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Experiencing Hubble [videorecording] : understanding the greatest images of the universe / by Meyer, David M.; Meyer, David Michael,1958-teacher.(CARDINAL)808897; Teaching Company,publisher.(CARDINAL)349444;

Book includes bibliographical references.Lecturer: David M. Meyer, professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University.Twelve lectures by David M. Meyer, professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University, on the Hubble Space Telescope.DVD.

Subjects: Educational films.; Lectures.; Video recordings.; Hubble Space Telescope (Spacecraft); Astronomy.; Cosmology.; Space telescopes.;

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The Scientific American book of astronomy : black holes, gamma-ray bursters, galactic explosions, extraterrestrial life, and much more / by Scientific American, inc.(CARDINAL)325071;

Subjects: Astronomy.;

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The Scientific American book of astronomy / by Scientific American, inc.(CARDINAL)325071;

MARCIVE 03/01/06Writing by the world's greatest living astronomers is featured here, culled from the pages of the popular science magazine, focusing on everything from black holes to a meteorite found in Antarctica.

Subjects: Astronomy.;

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The solar system / by Crelin, Joy,editor.(CARDINAL)885824;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Vol. 1. A - I (1-350); Vol. 2. J - R (351-724); Vol. 3. S - Z (725-1080). vol. 1. Amateur astronomy ; Archaeoastronomy ; Asteroids ; Astrophotography ; Astrophysics ; Auroras ; Big Bang ; Brown dwarfs ; Callisto (moon) ; Celestial coordinate systems ; Ceres ; Comet Halley ; Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 ; Comets ; Commercial crew program ; Comparative planetology ; Comparative planetology of Venus, Earth, and Mars ; Constellations ; Coronal holes and coronal mass ejections ; Cosmic rays ; Cosmology ; Dark matter ; Dwarf planets ; Earth-moon relations ; Earth-sun relations ; Earth system science ; Earth's age ; Earth's artificial satellites ; Earth's atmosphere ; Earth's composition ; Earth's core ; Earth's core-mantle boundary ; Earth's crust ; Earth's crust-mantle boundary: the Mohorovičicʹ Discontinuity ; Earth's differentiation ; Earth's magnetic field: origins ; Earth's magnetic field: secular variation ; Earth's magnetic field at present ; Earth's magnetosphere ; Earth's mantle ; Earth's oceans: evolution ; Earth's origin ; Earth's rotation ; Earth's shape ; Earth's structure ; Eclipses ; Electromagnetic radiation: nonthermal emissions ; Electromagnetic radiation: thermal emissions ; Enceladus ; Eris and Dysnomia ; Europa ; Exoplanets ; Exoplanets: detection methods ; Extraterrestrial life in the solar system ; Galaxy types ; Gamma-Ray bursts ; Ganymede ; General relativity ; Gravity measurement ; Greenhouse effect ; Habitable zones ; Hertzsprung-Russell diagram ; Iapetus ; Impact cratering ; Infrared astronomy ; Interplanetary environment ; Interstellar clouds and the interstellar medium ; Invention of the telescope ; Iovol. 2. Jovian planets ; Jupiter's atmosphere ; Jupiter's great red spot ; Jupiter's interior ; Jupiter's magnetic field and radiation belts ; Jupiter's ring system ; Jupiter's satellites ; Kuiper Belt ; Life's origins ; Light pollution ; Lunar craters ; Lunar history ; Lunar interior ; Lunar Maria ; Lunar regolith samples ; Lunar rocks ; Lunar surface experiments ; Main sequence stars ; Mars: illusions and conspiracies ; Mars: possible life ; Mars: surface experiments ; Mars's atmosphere ; Mars's craters ; Mars's polar caps ; Mars's satellites ; Mars's valleys ; Mars's volcanoes ; Mars's water ; Materials processing in space ; Mercury ; Meteorites: achondrites ; Meteorites: carbonaceous chondrites ; Meteorites: chondrites ; Meteorites: nickel-iron ; Meteorites: stony-iron ; Meteoroids from the moon and Mars ; Meteors and meteor showers ; Milky Way ; Miranda ; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ; Nemesis and Planet X ; Neptune's atmosphere ; Neptune's great dark spot ; Neptune's interior ; Neptune's magnetic field ; Neptune's ring system ; Neptune's satellites ; Neutrino astronomy ; Novae, bursters, and x-ray sources ; Nuclear synthesis in stars ; Oort Cloud ; Optical astronomy ; Planetary atmospheres ; Planetary classifications ; Planetary formation ; Planetary interiors ; Planetary magnetospheres ; Planetary orbits ; Planetary orbits: couplings and resonances ; Planetary ring systems ; Planetary rotation ; Planetary satellites ; Planetary tectonics ; Plasma physics ; Pluto and Charon ; Private industry and space exploration ; Protostars ; Pulsars ; Radio astronomy ; Red dwarf stars ; Red giant starsvol. 3. Saturn's atmosphere ; Saturn's interior ; Saturn's magnetic field ; Saturn's ring system ; Saturn's satellites ; Search for extraterrestrial intelligence ; Solar chromosphere ; Solar corona ; Solar evolution ; Solar flares ; Solar geodesy ; Solar infrared emissions ; Solar interior ; Solar magnetic field ; Solar photosphere ; Solar radiation ; Solar radio emissions ; Solar seismology ; Solar structure and energy ; Solar system: element distribution ; Solar system: origins ; Solar ultraviolet emissions ; Solar variability ; Solar wind ; Solar x-ray emissions ; Space debris ; Space resources ; Space stations ; Space tourism ; Space warfare ; Spacecraft engineering ; Space-time distortions ; Space-time mathematical models ; Stellar evolution ; Sunspots ; Supernovae ; Telescopes: ground-based ; Telescopes: space-based ; Terrestrial planets ; Thermonuclear reactions in stars ; Titan ; Triton ; Ultraviolet astronomy ; Universe: evolution ; Universe: expansion ; Universe: structure ; Uranus's atmosphere ; Uranus's interior ; Uranus's magnetic field ; Uranus's ring system ; Uranus's satellites ; Uranus's tilt ; Van Allen radiation belts ; Venus's atmosphere ; Venus's craters ; Venus's surface experiments ; Venus's surface features ; Venus's volcanoes ; White and black dwarfs ; X-Ray and Gamma-Ray astronomy ; Glossary ; General bibliography ; Web sites ; Subject index

Subjects: Astronomy; Solar system;

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The 50 most extreme places in our solar system / by Baker, David,1967-(CARDINAL)500240; Ratcliff, Todd,1967-(CARDINAL)500239;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-265) and index.Surface and interior. Tallest mountain : Olympus Mons ; Coldest volcanoes : cryovolcanoes ; A truly "grand" canyon : Valles Marineris ; Movers and shakers : plate tectonics ; Ooh! That'll leave a mark : extreme impact craters -- Oceans & water & ice, oh my! Deepest ocean : Europa ; Best surf spot : Earth ; Biggest ice cubes : Saturn's icy moons ; Jekyll and Hyde of the solar system : dirty, icy comets ; The sky is falling! : dry ice caps of Mars -- Wild, wild weather. Longest-lived storm : Jupiter's great red spot ; An ill and still wind bloweth : hurricanes on Earth ; Wildly wicked winds of Neptune ; Best vacuum cleaner : Martian dust devils ; The hardest rain : diamond hail on Uranus and Neptune -- Extreme climates. Biggest, baddest babies of climate : El Nin̋o and La Nin̋a ; But it's a dry heat : runaway greenhouse of Venus ; Dirtiest climate change : global dust storms on Mars ; Most bizarre seasons : Uranus ; Snowballs in hell : Mercury -- Rings and things. Those lovely rings : Saturn ; Billions and billions of bodies : the Oort cloud ; When comets attack : Shoemaker-Levy ; The planet that wasn't : the asteroid belt ; Earth-shattering impact : birth of our moon? -- Electro magneto to extremo. Supertwisted magnet : our sun ; Blowing a bubble in space : the solar wind ; Biggest plasma screen : Jupiter's magnetosphere ; Most radical electric light shows : Auroras on Earth and Jupiter ; Shocking superbolts of Saturn -- Life. Juuust right! : Earth's abundant life ; Death from above : The K-T extinction ; Life from above : alien origins ; Little green...microbes? : possible life on Mars ; Life in the dark ; Earth & Europa? -- The wack pack. Stinkiest place : the rotten egg of Io ; Best fuel depot : Titan ; Problematic planethood : Pluto ; Most retro : Venus & Triton ; Most misinterpreted "artifact" : the face on Mars ; One-eyed monster and the hex of Saturn ; FrankenMoon : Miranda ; As sure as sunrise? : Hyperion's chaotic rotation ; The incredible shrinking planet : Mercury ; A perfect fit : solar eclipses on Earth ; Strangest life-form : humans -- Sum of extreme parts. Supreme sun ; Giant Jupiter ; Sexy Saturn ; Extreme Earth.

Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Extreme environments.;

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