LEADER 04047nam 22007455 450 001 9910770253803321 005 20231207135044.0 010 $a3-031-41598-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-41598-2 035 $a(CKB)29310830900041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31005872 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31005872 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-41598-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929310830900041 100 $a20231207d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aScientific Debates in Space Science$b[electronic resource] $eDiscoveries in the Early Space Era /$fby Warren David Cummings, Louis J. Lanzerotti 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (277 pages) 225 1 $aAstronomy and Planetary Sciences,$x2366-0090 311 08$a9783031415975 327 $aChapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Solar Wind or Solar Breeze? -- Chapter 3 Open versus Closed Magnetosphere -- Chapter 4 Influx of Small Comets into Earth?s 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. 330 $aThis book features several of the significant scientific debates and controversies that helped develop space science in the early space era. The debates led to significant new understandings of the constituents and processes occurring beyond Earth?s atmosphere, and often opened new research directions. Scientific speculations with their resultant debates have played an important role in the development and furthering of research in general. The book thus has broad intellectual importance in illustrating how science advances. The book includes debates in the subject areas of heliophysics (physics in the cosmic region that covers particles and magnetic fields flowing from the Sun), Earth?s moon, solar system asteroids and comets, and the origin of cosmic gamma-ray bursts. A final chapter describes two important and surprising early scientific discoveries that involved no debates. The target audience for this book includes (a) active and retired space scientists, (b) space enthusiasts, and (c) students as supplemental (or even prime) reading in an introductory astronomy and/or space science course. The topics of the debates and controversies, their resolutions, and their pointing to further research and understanding of nature are of both historical and contemporary interest, appeal, and value. 410 0$aAstronomy and Planetary Sciences,$x2366-0090 606 $aPhysics$xHistory 606 $aSolar system 606 $aSun 606 $aAstrophysics 606 $aPlasma astrophysics 606 $aOuter space$xExploration 606 $aAstronautics 606 $aHistory of Physics and Astronomy 606 $aSpace Physics 606 $aSolar Physics 606 $aAstrophysics 606 $aAstrophysical Plasma 606 $aSpace Exploration and Astronautics 615 0$aPhysics$xHistory. 615 0$aSolar system. 615 0$aSun. 615 0$aAstrophysics. 615 0$aPlasma astrophysics. 615 0$aOuter space$xExploration. 615 0$aAstronautics. 615 14$aHistory of Physics and Astronomy. 615 24$aSpace Physics. 615 24$aSolar Physics. 615 24$aAstrophysics. 615 24$aAstrophysical Plasma. 615 24$aSpace Exploration and Astronautics. 676 $a520.9 700 $aCummings$b Warren David$01460409 701 $aLanzerotti$b Louis J$01094215 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910770253803321 996 $aScientific Debates in Space Science$93660277 997 $aUNINA