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  title info:
    title: Moore on Mercury
    sub title: The Planet and the Missions
  name:
    name part: Moore, Patrick.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 139 p. 5 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Mercury is one of the more difficult objects for amateur astronomers to observe because of its close proximity to the Sun. For the same reason, it is also one of the most fascinating and strange planets. Mercury is not much larger that our Moon, but orbits the Sun at an average distance of only 58 million km, compared to the Earth’s 150 million km. On its sunlit side, Mercury’s surface temperature can exceed 450C while the night side freezes at –180C. Amateur astronomers can see Mercury and its ever-changing phases all year, and sometimes watch it transit the Sun – the next transit is in November 2006, followed by one in May 2016. In his inimitable, easy-going style, Patrick Moore describes Mercury, the professional astronomers who have observed it over the centuries, amateur observations, and the past, present and future space missions to this extraordinary world.
  table of contents: Lift-off -- Elusive Planet -- “Messenger of the Gods” -- Mercury in the Solar System -- Crossing the Sun -- Ghost Planet -- Through the Telescope -- Mapping Mercury -- Mariner 10 -- Cratered World -- Around Mercury -- Return to Mercury -- Life on Mercury? -- A Trip to Mercury -- Mercurian Base.
  note: by Patrick Moore.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Planetology
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781846287602
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-760-2
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    record creation date: 100813
    record change date: 20151121043719.0
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