Scientific debates in space science : discoveries in the early space era / Warren David Cummings, Louis J. Lanzerotti.
Cummings, W. D., 1941-; Lanzerotti, Louis J.
2023
QB498
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Title Scientific debates in space science : discoveries in the early space era / Warren David Cummings, Louis J. Lanzerotti.
Author Cummings, W. D., 1941-
ISBN 9783031415982 (electronic bk.)
3031415981 (electronic bk.)
3031415973
9783031415975
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41598-2
Imprint Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-41598-2 doi
Call Number QB498
Dewey Decimal Classification 520.9
Summary This book features several of the significant scientific debates and controversies that helped develop space science in the early space era. The debates led to significant new understandings of the constituents and processes occurring beyond Earths atmosphere, and often opened new research directions. Scientific speculations with their resultant debates have played an important role in the development and furthering of research in general. The book thus has broad intellectual importance in illustrating how science advances. The book includes debates in the subject areas of heliophysics (physics in the cosmic region that covers particles and magnetic fields flowing from the Sun), Earths moon, solar system asteroids and comets, and the origin of cosmic gamma-ray bursts. A final chapter describes two important and surprising early scientific discoveries that involved no debates. The target audience for this book includes (a) active and retired space scientists, (b) space enthusiasts, and (c) students as supplemental (or even prime) reading in an introductory astronomy and/or space science course. The topics of the debates and controversies, their resolutions, and their pointing to further research and understanding of nature are of both historical and contemporary interest, appeal, and value.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 18, 2023).
Added Author Lanzerotti, Louis J.
Series Springer Praxis Bks.
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Solar Wind or Solar Breeze?
Chapter 3 Open versus Closed Magnetosphere
Chapter 4 Influx of Small Comets into Earths Atmosphere
Chapter 5 Origin of the Moon
Chapter 6 Lunar Dust
Chapter 7 Did the Chicxulub Impact Cause the Cretaceous Extinctions?
Chapter 8 Size of the Solar System
Chapter 9 Sources of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Chapter 10 Reflections on Space Science Research
Name Index
Subject Index.

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