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Author:

Scoles, Sarah, author.

Title:

Making contact : Jill Tarter and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence / Sarah Scoles.

Edition:

First Pegasus Books edition.

Publisher:

Pegasus Books,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

275 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Tarter, Jill C.
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Study group : U.S.)
Extraterrestrial beings--Research.
Women astronomers--United States--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index.

Contents:

How'd a nice girl like you get into a field like this? -- Babies, brown dwarfs, and big moves -- Making the Allen Telescope Array -- The future of the alien-hunting telescope -- A question for our time -- The politics of science and new projects -- The quest for contact -- the last chapter -- Extremophiles and exoplanets -- Shouting into the void -- A timeline of SETI.

ISBN:

1681774410
9781681774411

OCLC:

(OCoLC)959809050

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)