From Earth to HeavenSeventeen essays about water, mountains, islands, science fiction writing, Nobel Prize winners, fluorine, neutrons, the solar system, and other science topics. |
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... Jupiter - on - Callisto Jupiter - on - Ganymede Jupiter on Europa Jupiter on Io There seems no question but that all these satellites have had their rotations with respect to their primaries stopped . Each of these satellites faces one ...
... Jupiter - on - Callisto Jupiter - on - Ganymede Jupiter on Europa Jupiter on Io There seems no question but that all these satellites have had their rotations with respect to their primaries stopped . Each of these satellites faces one ...
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... Jupiter / Io and Neptune / Triton pairs , then we note that Jupiter is far larger than Nep- tune and that there will therefore be a larger drop in the gravitational field across the width of Jupiter than across the lesser width of ...
... Jupiter / Io and Neptune / Triton pairs , then we note that Jupiter is far larger than Nep- tune and that there will therefore be a larger drop in the gravitational field across the width of Jupiter than across the lesser width of ...
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... Jupiter's satellites had been discovered nine years before Kepler had announced his harmonic law . Kepler had worked out that law entirely from the planets , yet when he studied Jupiter's satellite system , he found it applied to that ...
... Jupiter's satellites had been discovered nine years before Kepler had announced his harmonic law . Kepler had worked out that law entirely from the planets , yet when he studied Jupiter's satellite system , he found it applied to that ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
FROM EARTH | 13 |
OH EAST IS WEST AND WEST IS EAST | 15 |
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