Earth & Space Science for Everybody

 

ISBN: 1-4251-1975-1

 

by

Lasse A. Kivioja

Prof. Emeritus, Purdue University

 

Learn more about this planet Earth, the dynamic processes that have formed and continue to form our unique 'garden spot Earth' with this intriguing gem. The book overviews all existing material from the center of the Earth to the top of Earth's atmosphere, to our Moon, to solar planets, to Earth's location in our Milky Way galaxy and to other galaxies in the universe.

Distant galaxies and their mutual motions are outlined all the way to the outer edges of the known universe from here to a distance of 13,700,000,000 light-years with up-to-date photographs taken by by the best ground-based and orbiting telescopes. These up-to-date photographs, diagrams and tables can be seen on computer monitors from the carefully chosen Internet links given throughout the book. The given links also have numerous references, usually located in the bibliography sections of most books.

 

This informative book is written in 'plain English' to be easy to read and easy to understand by everybody 'from 9 to 99'.

 

The book has no mathematical formulas.  All distances and velocities concerning the Earth, our solar system, our Milky Way Galaxy and other galaxies are given in an easily understood manner in both Metric and English units.

 

Read the book's back cover and its Introduction chapter at:

 

www.trafford.com/07-0381

 

The book is also available in bookstores worldwide and from many Internet book sellers. Type into the book seller's search box the word "kivioja" (without quotes), ordering, pricing and shipping information becomes available.

 

Read about the Sun, Earth, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, meteorites, meteor showers, this solar system, visible stars, Milky Way Galaxy and other galaxies.

 

Earth & Space Science for Everybody includes carefully selected links to current reputable Internet sites with spectacular photos and detailed expert descriptions to expand and complement the books paragraphs.  Over 1,400 Ôready-to-clickÕ Internet links are available in a small download, see below at 'Quick Pick Links'.  Many of these Internet sites are updated daily keeping this book fairly well updated.  Printed books cannot have as many, as current and as good new photos on their pages as the given Internet links provide.

 

Most of these Internet links are from NASA, GPL, USGS, USNO, NOAA, HUBBLE, CHANDRA, ESA (European Space Agency), JAXA, SOHO (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/), NAOJ, SPITZER and some other organizations.  To see what those organizations are, type those acronyms into GoogleÕs search box.

 

This automatic daily updating feature trumps high school textbooks and other printed books even with their subsequent ÔnewÕ editions printed at intervals of years, because many new discoveries and photos are published every week, often daily.  This also means that the daily info in this book comes for the day the reader clicks the link.  In addition, many sites have archives covering several past years.

 

Two good examples of such daily Internet links are:

From Google:  < astronomy picture of the day archive >, get

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html  and

www.spaceweather.com   

Many other links given in the book have similar features.

 

The book describes a back-yard-size 3-D model of the entire known Universe, so that the 'Whole Shebang' can be visualized from its outside.

 

About The Author

 

Lasse A. Kivioja was born in Finland and immigrated to the United States in 1955. During his studies for his Master of Science degree in Physics at The University at Helsinki he worked part-time at the Finnish Geodetic Institute. Specializing in EarthÕs gravity, he was an instructor and received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Geodetic Science at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio while working there at The Mapping and Charting Laboratory. He is a Professor Emeritus from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, where he lectured, conducted research in Geodetic Sciences for 26.5 years and published many refereed articles concerning new mathematical methods, sea levels and geodetic instruments.  He has a US Patent on Mercury Leveling Instruments.

 

'Quick Pick' Internet Links

 

The 'Quick Pick Links' can be used to speed up obtaining the intended Internet pages from the recommended Google search terms and the Internet addresses listed in the text of the book.

 

Download the 'Quick Pick' Links from:

 

Word Document

or from

HTML

 

This download is a 143-page, 8,460-word Microsoft Word document with 5 to 17 underlined clickable links on each of its pages.  In total, it has over 1.400 links of the intended photos/tables/information/explanations to supplement the text of the book.  Some of the links are updated daily, automatically keeping this book fairly well current as new information becomes available.

   

For example if one is reading the book on its page 114, in the Chapter 21.7. ÔAsteroids and Comets Hitting ÔOurÕ MoonÕ and if the second to the last Internet site is desired, one could (tediously) type the following Internet address: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast03nov99_1.htm into the address box of the browser.

 

Much easier, this same Internet site is just Ôa click awayÕ in The 'Quick Pick' links in the Word download (or in HTML), as follows:

 

1.Open the downloaded 'Quick Pick' Links (maybe it is already on the desktop). 

2. From Edit go  down to  FindÉ  

3. Into the search box of the Find-panel, type: 21.7.

4. Click on this panel: Find next. 

5. The 'Quick Pick' download document 'goes' to the page where  21.7. is (high-lighted), followed by six underlined links in the same order as in the book. 

6. Click on the desired link:

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast03nov99_1.htm

7. A five-page NASA site: Leonids on the Moon appears quickly on the computer monitor. 

 

Similarly all other, over 1,400 Internet sites can be accessed quickly without manual typing. 

 

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