Mirror Earth
The Search for Our Planet's Twin
1st Edition
Published on 16. October 2012
304 pages
978-0-8027-7902-1 (ISBN)
Description
In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they began to find planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. More than eight hundred planets have been found since then, yet none of them is anything like Earth and none could support life.
Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters are racing to find a true twin of Earth. Science writer Michael Lemonick has unique access to these exoplaneteers, as they call themselves, and Mirror Earth unveils their passionate quest. Unlike competitors in other races, Geoff Marcy, Bill Borucki, David Charbonneau, Sara Seager, and others actually consult and cooperate with one another. But only one will be the first to find Earth's twin. Mirror Earth tells the story of their competition.
Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters are racing to find a true twin of Earth. Science writer Michael Lemonick has unique access to these exoplaneteers, as they call themselves, and Mirror Earth unveils their passionate quest. Unlike competitors in other races, Geoff Marcy, Bill Borucki, David Charbonneau, Sara Seager, and others actually consult and cooperate with one another. But only one will be the first to find Earth's twin. Mirror Earth tells the story of their competition.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
ISBN-13
978-0-8027-7902-1 (9780802779021)
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Person
Michael D. Lemonick has written more than fifty Time magazine cover stories on science, and has been published in Discover, Wired, and Scientific American. He is the author of four books, most recently Echo of the Big Bang and The Georgian Star, and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Man Who Looked for Blinking Stars
- Chapter 2: The Man Who Looked for Wobbling Stars
- Chapter 3: Hot Jupiters: Who Ordered Those?
- Chapter 4: An Ancient Question
- Chapter 5: The Dwarf-Star Strategy
- Chapter 6: Imagining Alien Atmospheres
- Chapter 7: Invasion of the Female Exoplaneteers
- Chapter 8: Kepler Approved
- Chapter 9: Waiting for Launch
- Chapter 10: Kepler Scooped
- Chapter 11: "A 100 Percent Chance of Life"
- Chapter 12: The Kepler Era Begins
- Chapter 13: Beyond Kepler
- Chapter 14: How Many Earths?
- Chapter 15: What Does "Habitable" Really Mean?
- Chapter 16: A World Made of Rock, at Last
- Chapter 17: Astronomers in Paradise
- Chapter 18: Sara's Birthday Party
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- eCopyright
