The Mystery of CometsFor better students, a history of our knowledge of comets with chapters on current theories about their existence. |
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Contents
The Fear of Comets | 1 |
Early Theories of Comets | 10 |
Breaking the Crystalline Spheres | 17 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Mystery of Comets Library of the Solar System Smithsonian library of the solar system |
| Authors | Fred Lawrence Whipple, Daniel W. E. Green |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | Mar 7, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0874749689, 9780874749687 |
| Length | 276 pages |
| Subjects | › Science / Astronomy |
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