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Title | Measure of the Moon : Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Selenodesy and Lunar Topography held in the University of Manchester, England May 30 ??? June 4, 1966 |
Author(s) | Kopal, Zdenek;Goudas, C.L |
Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1967. |
Description | 497 p : online resource |
Abstract Note | After many decades spent in astronomical semi-obscurity, the Moon has of late suddenly emerged to claim renewed interest on the part of the students of astronomy, as well as of other branches of physical science and technology; and the reasons which brought this about are indeed of historical significance. From time immemorial, astronomy has been debarred from the status of a gen?? uine experimental science by the utter remoteness of the objects of its study. With the exception of meteors - those small freaks of cosmic matter intercepted by the Earth on its perpetual journey through space - the properties of all celestial bodies outside the gravitational confines of our planet could be studied only at a distance: namely, from the effect of attraction exerted by their masses; or from the ciphered message of their light brought to us by nimble-footed photons across the intervening gaps of space. A dramatic emergence of long-range rockets in the last decade bids fair to bring about a profound change in this situation. On September 13, 1959 - a memorable date in the history of human endeavour - a man-made missile of Russian origin crash?? landed on the surface of the Moon in the region of its Mare Imbrium, and thus ended the age-long separation of the Earth and its only natural satellite which lasted not less than 4t billion years |
ISBN,Price | 9789401035293 |
Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
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