Mercury / William Sheehan.

By:

Sheehan, William, 1954-

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781789140125
1789140129

Subject(s):

Mercury (Planet)

LOC classification:

QB611 .S454 2018

Contents:

The scintillating one -- Motions of Mercury -- Through the telescope -- Rotation -- Mercury up close -- Vulcan -- Appendix I : Glossary -- Appendix II : Basic data -- Appendix III : Craters.

Summary: "The Sun may be a mass of incandescent gas, but in the plasmatic reaches of its solar winds spins another seemingly glowing (but relatively minute) orb. The last of the five naked-eye planets discovered in ancient times, Mercury has long been an elusive, enigmatic world. As seen from the Earth, it never emerges far from the Sun, and astronomers in the telescopic era found it challenging to work out basic data such as its rotation period, the inclination of its axis, and whether or not it possessed an atmosphere."-- Amazon.com.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	QB611 .S454 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001482412

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172) and index.

"The Sun may be a mass of incandescent gas, but in the plasmatic reaches of its solar winds spins another seemingly glowing (but relatively minute) orb. The last of the five naked-eye planets discovered in ancient times, Mercury has long been an elusive, enigmatic world. As seen from the Earth, it never emerges far from the Sun, and astronomers in the telescopic era found it challenging to work out basic data such as its rotation period, the inclination of its axis, and whether or not it possessed an atmosphere."-- Amazon.com.

The scintillating one -- Motions of Mercury -- Through the telescope -- Rotation -- Mercury up close -- Vulcan -- Appendix I : Glossary -- Appendix II : Basic data -- Appendix III : Craters.

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