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book suggestions
In message , D Webb
writes Hey, I'm looking for a really good book on our solar systems planets. One that has a good bit of "techincal data" like masses and orbit periods and compositions and moons, etc. But, also one that has a good selection of the stunning pictures we've gotten in the last 10 or 20 years from all the probes. Does anyone have a suggestion for ONE book that has all this? If not, do you have suggestions for TWO books where each one fulfills half of the requirement? Thanks for any and all suggestions. Let me know what books you thought were the most informative and "prettiest". "The New Solar System" by J Kelly Beatty, Brian O'Leary, Andrew Chaikin would be my choice. They describe it as somewhere between a coffee-table book and a textbook - it's a collection of articles by experts in their field like Gene Shoemaker, James van Allen, and William Hartmann. -- "Forty millions of miles it was from us, more than forty millions of miles of void" |
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