Maunder's Work on Planetary Habitability in 1913: Early Use of the term "Habitable Zone" and a "Drake Equation" Calculation
Abstract
E. W. Maunder's popular book "Are the Planets Inhabited?" has a strikingly modern perspective on the question, and may be the first use in this context of the phrase "habitable zone."
- Publication:
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Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- June 2020
- DOI:
- 10.3847/2515-5172/ab9831
- Bibcode:
- 2020RNAAS...4...79L
- Keywords:
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- Habitable zone;
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