Mirror Earth : the search for our planet's twin /
"In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they detected three planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. The planets were nothing like Earth, however: They were giant gas balls like Jupiter or Saturn. More than five hundred planets have been found since then, yet none of them could support... Full description
| Main Author: | Lemonick, Michael D., 1953- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York : Walker, 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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| Contents: | The man who looked for blinking stars -- The man who looked for wobbling stars -- Hot Jupiters : who ordered those? -- An ancient question -- The dwarf-star strategy -- Imagining alien atmospheres -- Invasion of the female exoplaneteers -- Kepler approved -- Waiting for launch -- Kepler scooped -- "A 100 percent chance of life" -- The Kepler era begins -- Beyond Kepler -- How many Earths? -- What does "habitable" really mean? -- A world made of rock, at last -- Astronomers in paradise -- Sara's birthday party. |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status |
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| Neenah | Adult New Nonfiction | 523.24 L544m | Available |