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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Challenges for the Future
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Reviews
Whereas many published meeting proceedings are quite limited in relevance (they are rapidly superseded) and in audience (appealing only to specialists), I suspect this little book will appeal to a wider readership, for longer than most. It will stand as an historical record of what researchers considered important in this era. Perhaps in hindsight, future researchers will find the omission of solar-system topics from the list as astonishing, considering the future of humankind may well hinge on our ability to exploit or deflect near-Earth asteroids. Perhaps they will be shocked that the effects of solar activity on the Earth's climate were not worthy of examination. Perhaps they will laugh at our blindness to non-stellar baryons in the Universe. Write down your own list of unsolved astronomical problems, and compare it with those in this book a decade hence! The comparison can only prove enlightening.
(G.C.L. Aikman, The Observatory (124/1183/2004)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Unsolved Universe: Challenges for the Future
Book Subtitle: JENAM 2002
Editors: Mário J. P. F. G. Monteiro
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0235-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1673-8Published: 31 December 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6447-9Published: 01 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0235-5Published: 09 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 131
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Planetology, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory