Barnes and Noble online (www.bn.com) has an out-of-print search service, you might also want to try http://www.alibris.com/. Ulrich > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Christy [mailto:bob@zarya.freeserve.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 9:08 AM > To: Patrick Walsh > Cc: seeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com > Subject: Re: Books On Sat Observing > > > Is there no market for secondhand books in the US? > > Some of the best, and most useful, space and satellite books I've > picked up > in the past ten years have been from secondhand stores and book sales. > There seems to be plenty of s/h dealers on the Internet. > > I would suggest adding King-Hele's "Satellites and Scientific > Research" to > the list, together with Howard Miles' "Artificial Satellite > Observing". Also there > are two versions of "Observing Earth Satellites". > > Regards > Bob Christy > > On 7 Dec 2000, at 21:26, Patrick Walsh wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > I was thinking of asking for a book on orbital > mechanics/sat observing for christmas. What would you > recommend? I see that the most recommended is > _Observing Earth Satellites_ by King-Hele, but that is > out of print. Another more recently published book > ('92) by King-Hele called _A Tapestry Of Orbits_ is > still in print, but it costs eighty bucks at Amazon, > (!!!) and I don't even know if it has the stuff I'm > looking for. So could anyone recommend a relatively > cheap book (like under fifty bucks) that teach me > something about this hobby and let me understand more > of the technical stuff that is talked about here? > Thanks a lot! > > Clear skies, > Patrick > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. > http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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