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Author:

Hartmann, William K.

Title:

The grand tour : a traveler's guide to the solar system / by William K. Hartmann and Ron Miller.

Edition:

3rd ed., rev. ed.

Publisher:

Workman Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

vii, 296 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.

Subject:

Solar system--Popular works.

Other Authors:

Miller, Ron, 1947-
Miller, Ron, 1947- Grand tour.

Notes:

Revision of: The grand tour / by Ron Miller & William K. Hartmann. 2nd ed. 1993. Includes bibliographical references (p. 289) and index.

Contents:

Jupiter, planet of the gods -- Saturn, lord of the rings -- Uranus, a sideways world -- Neptune, the last giant -- Earth, it's alive -- Venus, the veiled inferno -- Mars, the other earth-like world -- Ganymede, a new wrinkle -- Titan, the masked moon -- Mercury, child of the sun -- Callisto, Jupiter's battered moon -- Io, a world turning inside out -- The moon, Earth's companion -- Europa, the solar system's secret ocean -- Triton, a world out of place -- Pluto and Charon, a double world -- Titania and Oberon, largest moons of Uranus -- Rhea, crater-crowded moon of Saturn -- 2004 DW, Pluto's rival -- Iapetus, the two-faced moon of Saturn -- Umbriel and Ariel, midsized moons of Uranus -- Dione and Tethys, midsized moons of Saturn -- 1 Ceres, the largest asteroid -- Enceladus, the resurfaced moon of Saturn -- 4 Vesta, a lava-covered asteroid -- Miranda, Uranus's reassembled moon? -- Mimas, Saturn's reassembled moon? -- Nereid, a captured moon of Neptune? -- 624 Hektor, largest compound asteroid? -- Amalthea, football-shaped moon of Jupiter -- 2060 Chiron, the king of the comets -- 5145 Pholus, fugitive from the Kuiper Belt -- Janus and Epimetheus, co-orbital satellites of Saturn -- Thebe, under the volcanoes -- Naiad, within Neptune's rings -- Comet P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, a comet with intermittent outbursts -- 433 Eros, the first asteroid landing -- 243 Ida and its moon, an asteroid with a bonus -- Phobos and Deimos, moonlets of Mars -- Halley's Comet, the most famous of them all -- 1221 Amor and 1862 Apollo, planet-approaching asteroids -- 4769 Castalia and 4179 Toutatis, Apollo asteroids of curious shapes -- Asteroid 6178, heavy metal in the sky -- 3908 NYX, a piece of Vesta -- 1991 BA, the cosmic shooting gallery -- Planetary systems beyond the Sun.

ISBN:

9780761139096 (alk. paper)
0761139095 (alk. paper)
9780761135470
0761135472

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57637689

LCCN:

2005043655

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

JLPF081 -- Ericson Public Library (Boone)

AHPD597 -- Chariton Public Library (Chariton)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

GVPC501 -- Monroe Public Library (Monroe)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)