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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/784885616 Title: Turn right at Orion : travels through the cosmos Author: Mitchell C Begelman Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2008. ISBN/ISSN: 9780465012169 0465012167 OCLC:784885616

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Turn right at Orion : travels through the cosmos

Author:	Mitchell C Begelman
Publisher:	New York : Basic Books, 2008.
Series:	Helix book.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"Turn Right at Orion is the account of an epic astronomical journey, discovered sixty million years in Earth's future-the product of one man's amazing, revelatory, and occasionally perilous space odys."
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Subjects	Cosmology -- Popular works. SCIENCE -- General. Cosmology.
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Genre/Form:	Electronic books Popular works
Additional Physical Format:	Print version: Begelman, Mitchell. Turn Right At Orion. New York : Basic Books, ©2008
Material Type:	Document, Internet resource
Document Type:	Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors:	Mitchell C Begelman Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780465012169 0465012167
OCLC Number:	784885616
Notes:	Includes index.
Description:	1 online resource (277 pages) : map.
Contents:	Introduction; Translator's Note; Prologue; Part I: Gravity; 1 To the Center of the Milky Way?; 2 En Route; 3 A Ballet; 4 Ground Zero; Part II: Motion; 5 The Cannibal; 6 Black Hole with a Mission; 7 SS 433; Part III: Equilibrium; 8 Shangri-La; 9 The Soft-Shell Crab; 10 Crab II; 11 Strange Light; 12 The Ends of Equilibrium; Part IV: Birth; 13 Orion; 14 By the Black Door; 15 Trapezium; 16 Points of Darkness, Shafts of Light; 17 The Dust Storm; 18 The Shepherd; 19 Finishing Touches; 20 Virgin Worlds; Part V: Evolution; 21 The Blob; 22 Divining the Interior; 23 Nuclear Alchemy. 24 The Dumbbell25 Leaving Home; 26 Outposts in the Halo; 27 The Explosion; 28 Aftermath; 29 Afterthoughts; Part VI: Hierarchy; 30 Really Leaving Home; 31 A City of Galaxies; 32 Brobdingnag; 33 Reprise; 34 On the Brink; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Index.
Series Title:	Helix book.
Responsibility:	Mitchell Begelman.

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"Turn Right at Orion is the account of an epic astronomical journey, discovered sixty million years in Earth's future-the product of one man's amazing, revelatory, and occasionally perilous space odys."

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