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| planets |
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goal
fundamental understanding |
category
popular science |
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content
understand and apply core principles
explore the solar system in depth
fill the gaps in your knowledge
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| paperback |
isbn:
0 340 86760 4 |
price:
£8.99 |
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Teach Yourself Planets is a comprehensive
guide to the Sun's family of planets and their moons,
illustrating their surface features and explaining the
processes that have shaped them.
Extensively illustrated, this book describes
the nature and origin of the solar system; looks at
the internal structure, surface features and weather
patterns of each planet and its major satellites; discusses
the possibilities of finding life on other planetary
bodies; covers asteroids and the icy bodies beyond Pluto;
and explains how to see the planets in the sky.
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| David
A Rothery, the author, teaches geology and planetary
science at the Open University, where he has been Director
of Teaching for the Department of Earth Sciences since
1999. He has performed fieldwork in many parts of the
globe, including North, Central and South America, Australia,
Hawaii and Sicily. He has also helped to characterise
the landing site for the Beagle 2 lander which is due
to land on Mars at the end of 2003. His current specialisms
are active volcanoes and geological processes on other
planets. |
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