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Meteorites: Messengers from Spacce

Fritz Heide, Frank Wlotzka - Science - 1995 - 248 pages
This is an easy-to-read introduction to, and overview of, current knowledge about meteorites. With information on fall phenomena, chemical and mineral composition, and ...
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The Role of VLBI in Astrophysics, Astrometry and Geodesy

Franco Mantovani, Andrzej Kus - Science - 2004 - 438 pages
A masterly survey of the last 13 years of Very Long Baseline Interferometry, reviewed in light of the most advanced astronomical observations. Topics covered include ...
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General Relativity, Astrophysics, and Cosmology

A.K. Raychaudhuri, S. Banerji, A. Banerjee - Science - 2003 - 316 pages
For about half a century the general theory of relativity attracted little attention from physicists. However, the discovery of compact objects such as quasars and pulsars, as ...
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The Image Mission

J. L. Burch - Science - 2000 - 528 pages
Written for both experimentalists and theorists in the field of magnetospheric physics, the papers collected in this volume offer detailed descriptions of the imaging ...
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Astrometry of Fundamental Catalogues: The Evolution from Optical to Radio ...

Hans G. Walter, Ojars Sovers - Science - 2000 - 252 pages
Celestial fundamental catalogues are a prerequisite for the determination of absolute positions and motions in space. Presently, positional astrometry is at the watershed ...
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The Physics and Dynamics of Planetary Nebulae

Grigor A. Gurzadyan - Science - 1997 - 576 pages
Planetary nebulae are the classic subject of astrophysics. The physical pro cesses occurring in this highly ionized gaseous medium, the formation of emis sion lines in clearly ...
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Theory of Orbits: Volume 1: Integrable Systems and Non-perturbative Methods

Dino Boccaletti, Prof. Giuseppe Pucacco - Science - 2003 - 410 pages
Half a century ago, S. Chandrasekhar wrote these words in the preface to his l celebrated and successful book: In this monograph an attempt has been made to present the theory ...
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Modern Astrometry

Jean Kovalevsky - Science - 2002 - 400 pages
An introduction to practical astrometry, dealing with the determination of positions, motions, distances and dimensions of celestial bodies ranging from quasars to artificial ...
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