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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, SETI

Title
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, SETI / edited by Philip Morrison, John Billingham, and John Wolfe ; prepared at Ames Research Center.
Publication
[Washington, D.C.] : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office : United States Government Printing Office, 1977.

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Additional Authors
  • Morrison, Philip
  • Billingham, John, 1930-2013
  • Wolfe, John, 1933-
  • Hesburgh, Theodore M. (Theodore Martin), 1917-2015
  • Ames Research Center.
Description
xv, 276 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Series Statement
NASA SP ; 419
Uniform Title
NASA SP (Series) ; 419.
Alternative Title
SETI
Subject
  • Life on other planets > Congresses
  • Interstellar communication > Congresses
  • Space environment
  • Interstellar communication
  • Extraterrestrial Environment
  • Space environment
  • Interstellar communication
  • Life on other planets
  • Vie extraterrestre
  • Communications interstellaires
Genre/Form
  • Government publications
  • Congress
  • proceedings (reports)
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Actes de congrès.
Note
  • Foreword by Theodore M. Hesburgh.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 239-241
Contents
Preface / Philip Morrison -- I. Consensus -- II. Colloquies. Cosmic evolution / Ichtiaque S. Rasool, Donald L. De Vincenzi, and John Billingham -- Cultural evolution / Mark A. Stull -- Detection of other planetary systems / Jesse L. Greenstein and David C. Black -- The rationale for a preferred frequency band : the water hole / Bernard M. Oliver -- Search strategies / Charles L. Seeger -- The science of SETI / David C. Black and Mark A. Stull -- III. Complementary documents. Alternative methods of communication / John H. Wolfe -- Notes on search space / Charles L. Seeger -- Parametric relations in a whole sky search / Bernard M. Oliver -- Stellar census / Charles L. Seeger -- Summary of possible uses of an interstellar search system for radio astronomy / Jeffrey N. Cuzzi and Samuel Gulkis -- SETI related scientific and technological advances / David C. Black and Mark A. Stull -- A preliminary parametric analysis of search systems / Roy Basler -- Radio frequency interference / Mark A. Stull and Charles L. Seeger -- Protection of a preferred radio frequency band / Mark A. Stull -- Responses to a questionnaire sent to leading radio observatories / Philip Morrison -- The Soviet CETI report -- Searches to date -- The maintenance of archives / Charles L. Seeger.
LCCN
78601079
OCLC
  • ocm03726063
  • 3726063
  • SCSB-2103962
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library