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Star Hunter - The discovery of the urban micrometeorites
Out in space, between the stars, planet, comets and asteroids, there is cosmic dust. Every day, tons of it fall down upon us as a gentle cosmic rain of micrometeorites. Little is known about these tiny mineral fragments from the time before the planets were formed, but from them scientists are able to obtain new knowledge about the universe and the formation of our solar system. They are the building blocks of the universe, and of life itself. We are stardust. Over the past hundred years, thousands have searched in vain for these exotic particles. Until Jon Larsen found the missing pieces of the puzzle - and solved the mystery.
In Star Hunter, Jon Larsen takes the reader along on his mission - an exciting chapter in the history of science. We join him in his search for stardust along the streets and rooftops, accompanying him through ups and downs and encounters with angry scientists until the unthinkable happens. Star Hunter is a fantastic work of popular science, anecdotal, personal and entertainingly narrated by Larsen. An amateur who surprised astronomers and geologists all over the world and a self-taught layman who succeeded in achieving something even the experts at NASA had failed to do.
Today, Jon Larsen studies micrometeorites as a scientific researcher at the University of Oslo (UiO). He is a popular lecturer, and a dynamo within the online international micrometeorite community. He posts daily updates to his Project Stardust on Facebook, sharing new information about and photographs of micrometeorites.
In Star Hunter, Jon Larsen takes the reader along on his mission - an exciting chapter in the history of science. We join him in his search for stardust along the streets and rooftops, accompanying him through ups and downs and encounters with angry scientists until the unthinkable happens. Star Hunter is a fantastic work of popular science, anecdotal, personal and entertainingly narrated by Larsen. An amateur who surprised astronomers and geologists all over the world and a self-taught layman who succeeded in achieving something even the experts at NASA had failed to do.
Today, Jon Larsen studies micrometeorites as a scientific researcher at the University of Oslo (UiO). He is a popular lecturer, and a dynamo within the online international micrometeorite community. He posts daily updates to his Project Stardust on Facebook, sharing new information about and photographs of micrometeorites.
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240 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2021
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September 6, 2024
Alltid syntes at steiner er spennende, burde nok egentlig blitt geolog? Litt lang bok og fakta-tung. Likevel veldig morsom tilnærming, lo masse!
January 1, 2022
Stjernejeger.
En spennende underholdende bok.
Fengende.
Til tider et litt pompøst malende språk, slik en kunstner eller musiker vil bruke.
You're a poet and you know it.
En spennende fortelling om utviklingen av interressen for stjernestøv til en altoppslukende hobby.
Fengende. Isper litt personlig fakta og litt fakta om hot club de norvege,men stjernestøvet er hovedpersonen.
En spennende underholdende bok.
Fengende.
Til tider et litt pompøst malende språk, slik en kunstner eller musiker vil bruke.
You're a poet and you know it.
En spennende fortelling om utviklingen av interressen for stjernestøv til en altoppslukende hobby.
Fengende. Isper litt personlig fakta og litt fakta om hot club de norvege,men stjernestøvet er hovedpersonen.
April 7, 2020
Loved this read! This is the back story of a scientific discovery made in an old fashioned way, in a modern society.
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