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Origins : the scientific story of creation /

J. E. Baggott, Author | New York, NY : Oxford University Press | 2015

What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know?There are m[...]

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Rosetta : Rendez-vous with a comet

Emily Baldwin, Editor | [S.l.] : European Space Agency | ESA BR | 2014

Rosetta is ESA’s comet-chasing mission. Launched in March 2004, it will be the first mission to fly alongside and attempt to land a probe on a comet. With details of how the mission plans to orbit comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko as they head tow[...]

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Destiny or chance revisited : planets and their place in the cosmos /

Stuart Ross Taylor, Author | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | 2012

This exciting tour of our universe explores what we now know about exoplanets and explains the difficulty of finding another Earth-like planet. Building on the remarkable story of our own solar system from his bestselling book Destiny or Chance,[...]

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The crowded universe : the search for living planets

Alan Boss | [S.l.] : Basic Books | 2009

The author describes radical new ideas about planetary formation and reveals discoveries of bizarre inhabitants of various solar systems.

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Rosetta : ESA's mission to the origin of the solar system

Rita ed. Schulz ; et al. | New York, NY : Springer | 2009

Rosetta will be the first ever spacecraft to rendez vous with a comet and go in orbit around the nucleus . It will stay there for over one year, in order to study the comet's evolution. Rosetta will also land on the surface of the comet, to perf[...]

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Solar System History from Isotopic signatures of Volatile Elements : Proceedings of an ISSI Workshop,14-18 January 2002, Bern Switzerland

Reinald Kallenbach, Editor ; Therese Encrenaz, Editor ; Johannes Geiss, Editor | [S.l.] : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Space science series of ISSI | 2003

This 16 volume focuses on isotopic signatures of volatile elements as tracers for evolutionary processes during the formation of the Sun and the Planets from an interstellar molecular cloud and, in turn, illuminates how the isotopic compositions[...]

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Solar system evolution : a new perspective

Stuart Ross Taylor | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | 2001

This completely rewritten new edition begins with an historical perspective of the place of the solar system in the universe. Evidence from meteorites is used to describe how the planets were formed and the giant planets are considered in the li[...]

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