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:
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
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:
or from
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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