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    Factismals for Space Cadets

    By John DeLaughter

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    About this ebook

    Did you ever wonder how they choose the names for astronomical objects (and if you could name a few yourself)? Or what Jupiter sounds like (and if you could listen)? Or whatever happened to atomic rockets (and if you could ride along)? Then this is the book for you!

    Factismals for Space Cadets is all about the little bits of science that make it so interesting. It contains a month's worth of little facts (factismals) that explain a bit of science. Even better, each day includes a link to a science experiment that you can take part in! The experiments range from looking for planets in the Kepler data to helping amateur astronauts launch their own rocket into space to taking pictures of clouds for ground-truthing satellites.

    And the best part is that your work in each experiment will help the researchers doing the experiment! This isn't one of those "kill a potato" books; you'll have opportunities to do *real* science and work with *real* scientists. You'll be participating in the movement known as "citizen science".

    So take a look. Give an experiment or two a try. What do you have to lose?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn DeLaughter
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781301982936
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    Factismals for Space Cadets
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    John DeLaughter

    John DeLaughter is a planetologist living in Oklahoma City, OK. He has made explosions at the Omniplex Science Museum; frozen stuff at the Miami Science Museum; explored Venus as a NASA intern; played with earthquakes as part of EarthScope; and listened to whales as a Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute intern. His work has taken him to all seven continents where he has always met the nicest people. He earned a BS in Physics and an MS in Geophysics from the University of Oklahoma, an MBA from the University of New Orleans, and a PhD in Geophysics from Northwestern University. With Mel White, he is the author of a coloring book called Are you my dinner? All of his books are available on Smashwords, Amazon, and iTunes. Please follow his science blog, factismals.com

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