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  • Ordinary Chondrites

    The Most Common Meteorites

    by Alan E. Rubin ...
    Series series Cambridge Planetary Science
    Ordinary chondrites, the most abundant meteorites, constitute about 80% of meteorite falls and are essential to our understanding of cosmochemistry. They provide important information about planetary accretion, the early Solar System, and the geological history of asteroids, including such processes as thermal metamorphism, shock metamorphism, and aqueous alteration. This comprehensive guide ... Read more

    $139.39 USD

  • Surface/Volume

    How Geometry Explains Why Grain Elevators Explode, Hummingbirds Hover, and Asteroids are Colder than Ice

    by Alan E. Rubin ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book explains that diffusion, osmosis, dissolution, evaporation, and heat loss all preferentially affect small bodies due to their high surface/volume ratios. Because surface area increases as the square of length, but volume (and mass) increase as the cube, large objects have low surface/volume ratios and small objects have high surface/volume ratios. This simple physical constraint governs ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Disturbing the Solar System

    Impacts, Close Encounters, and Coming Attractions

    by Alan E. Rubin ...
    The solar system has always been a messy place in which gravity wreaks havoc. Moons form, asteroids and comets crash into planets, ice ages commence, and dinosaurs disappear. By describing the dramatic consequences of such disturbances, this authoritative and entertaining book reveals the fundamental interconnectedness of the solar system--and what it means for life on Earth.After relating a brief ... Read more

    $35.99 USD