By David A. J. Seargent
This booklet is, in a feeling, a sequel to David Seargent's first Springer booklet Weird Astronomy (2010). while Weird Astronomy prolonged over a huge diversity of only astronomical issues, the current paintings concentrates on phenomena in the direction of domestic; the atmospheric and "shallow area" occasions instead of deep house occasions. the road among astronomy and meteorology is blurred - a undeniable fact that is mentioned in Weird Weather. it's not essentially a e-book of "wonders" or of the unexplained, even if many of the subject matters lined stay mysteries. it's essentially directed towards those who find themselves enthusiastic about weather and climate, and who're open-minded while contemplating Earth's weather, what drives it, and what are the reasons of weather swap. the writer, David A. J. Seargent, offers the proof with a balanced and clinical approach.
Weird climate: stories of Astronomical and Atmospheric Anomalies is set unusual, strange, and it appears inexplicable observations of the air and sky. essentially those are within the Earth's surroundings, yet there are corresponding phenomena within the atmospheres of different planets of the sunlight approach - lightning on Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, whirlwinds and mud storms of Mars, and auroras on Jupiter. issues comprise anomalous lighting, anomalous sounds, dazzling results of cloud illumination by way of the sunlight or Moon, lightning phenomena, electrophonic sounds of lightning, aurora and meteors, twister and whirlwind phenomena in the world and Mars, ordinary atmospheric results, mirages, and the prospective astronomical affects on cloud and climate.
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It is also closer in space, so the impression might be gained that we have a second Earth right on our doorstep, cosmically speaking. Yet, we all know differently. Conditions on Venus are about as far from those of Earth as we can imagine. The impression is sometimes given that the reason why Venus turned out to be so hostile rests solely with its location outside of the planetary habitable zone. 72 AU from the Sun, it is too close and therefore too hot to sustain complex life. This is, of course, part of the answer, but it overlooks some very negative intrinsic properties of this second rock from the Sun.
The Magellanic Clouds/Milky Way system is unlike anything else that has as yet been found in galactic surveys! As we will see during the course of this chapter, anomalies seem to play an important role in determining suitability for androde habitability. e. the assumption that our location in the universe is not special in any fundamental sense. Of course “special” is a loaded word, but if it is replaced by “nonanomalous” we will increasingly see that the opposite is actually the case. Or, at least, that is how it appears.
At least, for an orbit anywhere near the habitable zone. It is possible that small planets could orbit far beyond the eccentric gas giants (perhaps planets that had been hurled out of the inner zone, but managed not quite to escape the system altogether), but these would be of no interest for those seeking habitable worlds. At the other end of the scale lie solar systems that have no gas giants at all. These are surely out there and the new generation of planet finders like Kepler might soon uncover them.