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Paperback Gerard P. Kuiper and the Rise of Modern Planetary Science Book
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ISBN: 0816555311

ISBN13: 9780816555314

Gerard P. Kuiper and the Rise of Modern Planetary Science

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Releases Dec 3, 2024
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Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper ignored the traditional boundaries of his subject. Using telescopes and the laboratory, he made the solar system a familiar, intriguing place. "It is not astronomy," complained his colleagues, and they were right. Kuiper had created a new discipline we now call planetary science.

Kuiper was an acclaimed astronomer of binary stars and white dwarfs when he accidentally discovered that Titan, the massive moon of Saturn,...

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