Book ID: CBB000470049

The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist (2004)

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de Grasse Tyson, Neil (Author)


Prometheus Books


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: 203 pp.; ill.; bib.; index
Language: English

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Review Trimble, Virginia (2005) Review of "The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist". Physics in Perspective (p. 492). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Abt, Helmut A.
Day, Jamie
Dick, Wolfgang R.
Gold, Thomas
Marché, Jordan D.
Mitton, Simon A.
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Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise
Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
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History of Science
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