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| View Larger Image | The Search for Extra-Solar Terrestrial Planets: Techniques and Technology | Hardcoverby J.M. Shull (Editor), Harley A. Thronson Jr. (Editor), S. Alan Stern (Editor)
| List Price: | $132.00 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Springer | | Page Count: | 164 Pages | | Publication Date: | March 31, 1997 | | Sales Rank: | 5,222,727th |
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This book contains the invited talks from the 1995 Boulder conference on the Search for Extra-Solar Planets. It describes the scientific basis, technological options, and programmatic implications of large-scale efforts to find and study Earth-like planets outside the Solar System, and is targeted at astronomers, planetary scientists, engineers, and graduate students. These are among the first papers in this rapidly expanding field, driven by the first discoveries of planetary companions to nearby stars and providing the current status of the search for extra-solar planets. What sort of objects are we looking for in planetary atmospheres and planetary-system architectures? What techniques are currently feasible, both from the ground and in space? How can interferometers be optimized to discern faint planets in the glare of their parent stars? The detection and study of Earth-like planets outside our Solar System will be one of the great scientific, technological, and philosophical events of our time, affecting our understanding of the Universe and the place of life within it. |
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methods still relevant by W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3)  4 Stars
December 20, 2008
The term extra-solar in the title is now outdated. The preferred term is exoplanets; more concise. Perhaps too the book's contents are somewhat outdated. There have been considerable advances in hardware and observations since the book's publication in 96.
But readers might still want to look up the contents. Various methods are described, and the science behind these is still relevant. Plus, with the benefit of the intervening years, you can now assess how feasible those ideas turned out to be.
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