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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... solar system to dissipate its rotational energy to the point where the tidal bulge is frozen into the Moon , and where the Moon faces one side only toward the Earth . This is actually the situation . We can suspect that any satellite ...
... solar system to dissipate its rotational energy to the point where the tidal bulge is frozen into the Moon , and where the Moon faces one side only toward the Earth . This is actually the situation . We can suspect that any satellite ...
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... solar system , planetesimals were gathering together to form the planets and the last few really large ones could have left the huge scars that mark the oceans on the Earth and the " seas " on the Moon . Or else there was a period in ...
... solar system , planetesimals were gathering together to form the planets and the last few really large ones could have left the huge scars that mark the oceans on the Earth and the " seas " on the Moon . Or else there was a period in ...
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... solar system . There is , however , a vast universe outside the solar system . There are stars that consist almost entirely of degenerate matter and that have densities which , even on the average , are considerably higher than the maxi ...
... solar system . There is , however , a vast universe outside the solar system . There are stars that consist almost entirely of degenerate matter and that have densities which , even on the average , are considerably higher than the maxi ...
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INTRODUCTION | 9 |
FROM EARTH | 13 |
OH EAST IS WEST AND WEST IS EAST | 15 |
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