Solar System
October 27th 2011 02:42
:
David Jobling
Link: www.marcuschown.com/
Solar System: a visual exploration of the planets, moons and other heavenly bodies that orbit our sun by Marcus Chown
Published by Faber rrp: Aust $39.99
Yes, it is an app you can download to your mobile phone, but it's also a hardback you can sit on your lap and flip through as well as show and tell with to a group without having to worry about reflections obscuring the screen or needing to sit on top of it to be able to see much at all.
Actually this is an exciting book filled with advanced information that young people are going to love, and those of us who haven't been keeping up with the new discoveries in our own solar system are going to be a bit amazed by.
Everyone knows that Pluto has been downgraded from a planet right, but how many realise they are still discovering things floating around in our own little patch of the ever expanding universe?
And those things are as big as 300 kilometres across and look like everything from a giant pumice stone to a squished egg. Makemake was pretty much discovered as recently as in 2005, and had it been noticed in the 1930's when Pluto was discovered it would most likely have been called a planet as well, but it is not.
Chow writes for New Scientist Magazine and on line so he knows his stuff, and although this book will eventually become superseded by a book full of more new information, it should be pretty good for your lifetime. It is a great gift and sits very comfortably on the lap, as it should. I've barely put it down I am so fascinated by all of the beautiful photographs and colour illustrations, not to mention the actual information which is always intriguing to read.
A great gift for anyone who has their heart and mind set on the final frontier.
Published by Faber rrp: Aust $39.99
Yes, it is an app you can download to your mobile phone, but it's also a hardback you can sit on your lap and flip through as well as show and tell with to a group without having to worry about reflections obscuring the screen or needing to sit on top of it to be able to see much at all.
Actually this is an exciting book filled with advanced information that young people are going to love, and those of us who haven't been keeping up with the new discoveries in our own solar system are going to be a bit amazed by.
And those things are as big as 300 kilometres across and look like everything from a giant pumice stone to a squished egg. Makemake was pretty much discovered as recently as in 2005, and had it been noticed in the 1930's when Pluto was discovered it would most likely have been called a planet as well, but it is not.
Chow writes for New Scientist Magazine and on line so he knows his stuff, and although this book will eventually become superseded by a book full of more new information, it should be pretty good for your lifetime. It is a great gift and sits very comfortably on the lap, as it should. I've barely put it down I am so fascinated by all of the beautiful photographs and colour illustrations, not to mention the actual information which is always intriguing to read.
A great gift for anyone who has their heart and mind set on the final frontier.
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