LEADER 04072nam 22006495 450 001 9910437984003321 005 20200702153204.0 010 $a1-4614-7064-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-4614-7064-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000369975 035 $a(EBL)1205370 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000880295 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11542521 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000880295 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10873320 035 $a(PQKB)10215851 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4614-7064-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1205370 035 $a(PPN)169136892 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000369975 100 $a20130418d2013 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWeird Worlds $eBizarre Bodies of the Solar System and Beyond /$fby David A. J. Seargent 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cSpringer New York :$cImprint: Springer,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 225 1 $aAstronomers' Universe,$x1614-659X 300 $aIncludes indexes. 311 $a1-4614-7063-3 327 $aOddities of the Inner Worlds -- Strange Little Worlds ? Asteroids and Their Kin -- The Many Moons of the Solar System -- Titan ? Weirdest World of Them All? -- Oddities of the Outer Worlds -- Strange Worlds Afar -- Observational Projects. 330 $aIn Weird Worlds, the author discusses planets where temperatures are so high that it rains molten iron, and others so cold that liquid methane floods across plains of ice! Worlds are described where the lightest element acts like a metal and where winds blow at thousands of miles per hour ? as well as possible planets whose orbits are essentially parabolic.   Weird Worlds is the third book in David Seargent?s ?Weird? series. This book assumes a basic level of astronomical understanding and concentrates on the ?odd and interesting? aspects of planetary bodies, including asteroids and moons. From our viewpoint here on Earth, this work depicts the most unusual features of these worlds and the ways in which they appear ?weird? to us.   Within our own Solar System, odd facts such as the apparent reversal of the Sun in the skies of Mercury, CO2-driven fountains of dust on Mars, possible liquid water (and perhaps primitive life!) deep within the dwarf planet Ceres, and a variety of odd facts about the planetary moons are all discussed. A special chapter is devoted to Saturn?s giant moon Titan, and its methane-based weather system and ?hydrological? cycle. This chapter also includes recent speculation on the possibility of methane-based organisms and the form that these might take, if they really do exist. Beyond our Solar System, the book looks at the range of worlds discovered and hypothesized. In keeping with previous titles in David Seargent?s ?Weird? series, Weird Worlds contains several projects that astronomers of all levels can participate. 410 0$aAstronomers' Universe,$x1614-659X 606 $aSpace sciences 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aPlanetology 606 $aSpace Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22030 606 $aPopular Science in Astronomy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q11009 606 $aPlanetology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G18010 615 0$aSpace sciences. 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 0$aPlanetology. 615 14$aSpace Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). 615 24$aPopular Science in Astronomy. 615 24$aPlanetology. 676 $a520 700 $aSeargent$b David A. J$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0792808 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910437984003321 996 $aWeird Worlds$92113460 997 $aUNINA