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• A cosmic framework establishes a solid foundation of understanding by exploring our place in the universe and how astronomers know what they know, fleshing out these themes throughout the text. This approach motivates students to learn and helps them develop both a personal understanding of astronomy and a lasting appreciation of the process of science.
• Consistent Chapter Structure Focused on Learning Goals provides a clear, student-friendly path through the book. It consists of:
  • Motivational learning goals, phrased as questions at the start of each chapter, that help students focus on key concepts
  • Sections written to address each learning goal. Every section of each chapter is written to answer a single learning goal question, keeping students focused on core ideas. 
  • Visual summaries revisit learning goals at the end of every chapter, using text and key figures to reinforce what students have learned in each section
• Thorough coverage of new discoveries includes the latest information on solar system missions, the search for extrasolar planets, observations of stars and galaxies, and cosmology.
• The Process of Science, a major theme integrated throughout the main text, is reinforced with a set of short answer questions at the end of each chapter,as well as a suite of tutorials available for assignment on MasteringAstronomy^™.
• A comparative planetology approach helps students understand the similarities and differences between planets and the processes that shape them. Planet-by-planet information combined with this comparative approach gives students a deeper understanding of our solar system, other solar systems, and the prospects for life in the universe.
• Annotated Figures and Photos act as the voice of the instructor to walk students through the key ideas presented in complex figures, photos, and graphs.
• Cosmic Context Figures combine text and illustrations into accessible and coherent two-page visual summaries that help improve students’ understanding of essential topics. Key Cosmic Context Figures are explored further in new Video Podcasts on MasteringAstronomy.
• An integrated media program uses icons throughout the text to direct students to the suite of astronomy media on MasteringAstronomy, including Self-Guided Tutorials and Interactive Figures and Photos,^™ which help students improve their understanding of the most challenging concepts in the course.
• MasteringAstronomy, the most sophisticated astronomy tutorial and assessment system ever built, provides a wealth of assignable tutorial problems, end-of-chapter questions, and test bank problems to make creating homework assignments easier than ever for instructors. MasteringAstronomy also provides a self-study area for students with 3 sets of quizzes, 22 Self-Guided Tutorials, over 100 Interactive Figures and Photos, and access to an interactive myeBook.
• The Instructor Resource DVD includes high resolution JPEGs of all images from the book, Interactive Figures and Photos^™ based on figures in the text, additional applets and animations to illustrate key concepts, PowerPoint^® Lecture Outlines that include figures, photos, checkpoint questions, and multimedia, and PRS-enabled Clicker Quizzes based on the book and book-specific interactive media.

New To This Edition

• Visual Skills Check questions at the end of each chapter help students build their visual interpretation and critical thinking skills by asking them to analyze information provided in graphs and photos. Answers are given in the back of the book so that students can use these questions for review before quizzes and exams.
• Three new Cosmic-Context two-page figures have been added on the topics of seasons, global warming, and the H-R diagram.
• A visual overview of scale gives students an at-a-glance reference to review one of the most important ideas in astronomy.
• Chapter content has been streamlined and updated to include the latest photos and information from recent observations, missions, and experiments.
• MasteringAstronomy has been updated to include a new suite of math review and quantitative tutorials, a set of video podcasts based on the Cosmic Context figures in the book, a set of group work questions for in-class use, and RSS news feeds from a variety of popular astronomy publications.

Table of Contents

I. DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVE

1. Our Place in the Universe 

2. Discovering the Universe for Yourself

3. The Science of Astronomy

S1. Celestial Timekeeping and Navigation

II. KEY CONCEPTS FOR ASTRONOMY

4. Making Sense of the Universe: Understanding Motion, Energy, and Gravity

5. Light and Matter: Reading Messages from the Cosmos

6. Telescopes: Portals of Discovery

III. LEARNING FROM OTHER WORLDS

7. Our Planetary System

8. Formation of the Solar System

9. Planetary Geology: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds

10. Planetary Atmospheres: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds

11. Jovian Planet Systems

12. Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets: Their Nature, Orbits, and Impacts

13. Other Planetary Systems: The New Science of Distant Worlds

IV. A DEEPER LOOK AT NATURE

S2. Space and Time

S3. Spacetime and Gravity

S4. Building Blocks of the Universe

V. STARS

14. Our Star

15. Surveying the Stars

16. Star Birth

17. Star Stuff

18. The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard

VI. GALAXIES AND BEYOND

19. Our Galaxy

20. Galaxies and the Foundation of Modern Cosmology

21. Galaxy Evolution

22. Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe

23. The Beginning of Time

VII. LIFE ON EARTH AND BEYOND

24. Life in the Universe

Courses

Astronomy  (Physics & Astronomy)

Previous Edition(s)

• Cosmic Perspective Media Update with MasteringAstronomy and Voyager SkyGazer Planetarium Software, The, 4/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2007  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 736 pp  |  Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0805366474  |  ISBN-13: 9780805366471
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  Building on a long tradition of strong pedagogy and streamlined presentation, The Cosmic Perspective, Fourth Edition Media Update now includes an enhanced media package that features the most advanced astronomy tutorial, assessment, and self-study system ever built. The Fourth Edition Media Update includes MasteringAstronomy™, Voyager SkyGazer planetarium software, an updated Astronomy Media Workbook, and an e-book CD-ROM with embedded animations — a convenient additional study resource for students on the go -– all designed to help professors and students seamlessly incorporate media into their lectures and at-home study.

   

  MasteringAstronomy’s sophisticated analysis of student performance data (including difficulty, time spent, and most common errors) has allowed every item to be systematically refined for quality, educational effectiveness, efficiency of teaching and learning, and assessment accuracy.  The Cosmic Lecture Launcher CD-ROM allows professors to integrate animations and interactive tools into classroom lectures, while the Voyager SkyGazer CD-ROM, also included with the text,provides students with the most popular planetarium software to help them learn more about their place in the universe.

   

  The Fourth Edition Media Update is a student-friendly text that focuses on central ideas and unifying themes to provide a cosmic context. Renowned for its up-to-date, expert coverage and strong pedagogical support for student learning, the Fourth Edition Media Update retains and builds on all the features and supplements that have helped to make it the #1 most adopted astronomy textbook.

   

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• Cosmic Perspective Media Update with MasteringAstronomy®, The, 5/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2009  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Paper Package; 864 pp  |  Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0321551389  |  ISBN-13: 9780321551382
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  Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive presentation, The Cosmic Perspective Media Update, Fifth Edition includes Voyager: SkyGazer planetarium software, an updated Astronomy Media Workbook on CD-ROM at no extra charge, and an enhanced MasteringAstronomy^™ online tutorial and assessment system. This edition’s expanded visual pedagogy features new Cosmic Context two-page illustrations that walk students through key processes and summarize the major concepts in each Part. Zoom-in figures also provide students with a sense of orientation, scale, and relation between images. In addition to its enhanced visuals, the text also features See It For Yourself boxes with practical hands-on activities for in-class use or self-study, and a new set of Process of Science end-of-chapter questions that challenge students to think through how we know what we know about astronomy. Renowned for its up-to-date, expert coverage and strong pedagogical support for student learning, the Media Update Fifth Edition retains and builds on all the features and supplements from previous editions that have helped to make it the most widely adopted astronomy textbook.

   

   Offered with The Cosmic Perspective Media Update, Fifth Edition is an unparalleled media package designed to help professors and students seamlessly incorporate media into lectures and independent study.  MasteringAstronomy^™, the most sophisticated yet easy-to-use astronomy tutorial and assessment system ever built, provides a library of assignable tutorial problems, a powerful gradebook for instructors, and a robust self-study area that includes quizzes, Interactive Tutorials, new Interactive Figures and Photos^™, RSS news feeds that provide up-to-date articles from major astronomy news sources, a content-plus eBook, with enhanced functionality, write-to capability, live links, and more. For additional instructor media resources, The Cosmic Lecture Launcher v5.0 CD-ROM set includes high resolution JPEGs of all images from the book, Interactive Figures and Photos based on figures in the text, PowerPoint^® Lecture Outlines, and Clicker Quizzes based on the book and book-specific interactive media, plus a variety of additional instructor resources.

   

  This product contains:

  • Voyager: SkyGazer v4.0 College Edition CD-ROM (component) for The Cosmic Perspective Media Update | ISBN-10: 0321556267
  • Astronomy Media Workbook | ISBN-10: 0321556275
  • The Cosmic Perspective Media Update (textbook) | ISBN-10: 0321558170
  • Mastering Astronomy™ with Pearson eText Student Access Kit for Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit (ME component) | ISBN-10: 0321582225

   

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• Cosmic Perspective, The, 5/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2008  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Paper Package; 864 pp  |  Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0321505670  |  ISBN-13: 9780321505675
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  Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive presentation, The Cosmic Perspective, Fifth Edition includes an enhanced art program. This student-friendly text is now even more accessible through robust visual pedagogy via new Cosmic Context two-page illustrations, which walk students through key processes and summarize the major points of each Part, and via updated zoom-in figures which provide students with a sense of orientation, scale, and relation between images. In addition to an enhanced art program, the text also features new See It For Yourself boxes with practical hands-on activities for in-class use or self-study, and a new subset of Process of Science end-of-chapter questions that challenge students to think through how we know what we know about astronomy. Renowned for its up-to-date, expert coverage and strong pedagogical support for student learning, the Fifth Edition retains and builds on all the features and supplements from previous editions that have helped to make it the #1 most adopted astronomy textbook.

   

   

  The Cosmic Perspective, Fifth Edition, includes the most sophisticated yet easy-to-use astronomy tutorial and assessment system ever built: MasteringAstronomy^TM It provides both instructor-assigned homework and a self-study area containing our popular astronomy media that includes Interactive Tutorials^TM, Interactive Figures and Photos^TM , quizzes, and more. The Cosmic Lecture Launcher v5.0 CD-ROM includes high resolution JPEGs of all images from the book for improved in-class projection, Interactive Figures and Photos based on figures in the text, PowerPoint^® Lecture Outlines, and Clicker Quizzes based on the book and book-specific interactive media, plus a variety of additional instructor resources. This unparalleled media package is designed to help professors and students seamlessly incorporate media into their lectures and at-home study.

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Author Bios

Jeffrey Bennett

Jeffrey Bennett holds a B.A. (1981) in biophysics from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.S. and Ph.D.(1987) in astrophysics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has taught at every level from preschool through graduate school, including more than 50 college classes in astronomy, physics, mathematics, and education. He served 2 years as a visiting senior scientist at NASA headquarters, where he created NASA's "IDEAS" program, started a program to fly teachers aboard NASA's airborne bservatories (including the hopefully soon-to-be-flying SOFIA), and worked on numerous educational programs

for the Hubble Space Telescope and other space science missions. He also proposed the idea for and helped develop

both the Colorado Scale Model Solar System on the CU-Boulder campus and the VoyageScale Model Solar System on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (He is pictured here with the model Sun.) In addition to this astronomy textbook, he has written college-level textbooks in astrobiology, mathematics, and statistics; two books for the general public, On the Cosmic Horizon (Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2001) and Beyond UFOs (Princeton University Press, 2008); and an award-winning series of children's books that includes Max Goes to the Moon, Max Goes toMars, Max Goes to Jupiter (coming soon), and Max's Ice Age Adventure. When not working, he enjoys participating in masters swimming and in the daily adventures of life with his wife, Lisa; his children, Grant and Brooke; and his dog, Cosmo. His personal Website is www.jeffreybennett.com <http://www.jeffreybennett.com/> .

Megan Donahue

Megan Donahue is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. Her current research is mainly on clusters of galaxies: their contents-dark matter, hot gas, galaxies, active galactic nuclei-and what they reveal about the contents of the universe and how galaxies form and evolve. She grew up on a farm in Nebraska and received a B.A. in physics from MIT, where she began her research career as an X-ray astronomer. She has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Colorado, for a thesis on theory and optical observations of intergalactic and intracluster gas. That thesis won the 1993 Trumpler Award from the Astronomical Society for the Pacific for an outstanding astrophysics doctoral dissertation in North America. She continued postdoctoral research in optical and X-ray observations as a Carnegie Fellow at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and later as an STScI Institute Fellow at Space Telescope. Megan was a staff astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute until 2003, when she joined the MSU faculty. Megan is married to Mark Voit, and they collaborate on many projects, including this textbook and the raising of their children,Michaela, Sebastian, and Angela. Between the births of Sebastian and Angela, Megan qualified for and ran the Boston Marathon. These days,Megan runs, orienteers, and plays piano and bass guitar whenever her children allow it.

Nicholas Schneider

Nicholas Schneider is an associate professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University

of Colorado and a researcher in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. He received his B.A. in physics and astronomy from Dartmouth College in 1979 and his Ph.D. in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1988. In 1991, he received the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award. His research interests include planetary atmospheres and planetary astronomy, with a focus on the odd case of Jupiter's moon Io. He enjoys teaching at all levels and is active in efforts to improve undergraduate astronomy education. Off the job, he enjoys exploring the outdoors with his family

and figuring out how things work.

Mark Voit

Mark Voit is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. He earned his B.A. in astrophysical sciences at Princeton University and his Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Colorado in 1990. He continued his studies at the California Institute of Technology, where he was a research fellow in theoretical astrophysics, and then moved on to Johns Hopkins University as a Hubble Fellow. Before going to Michigan State,Mark worked in the Office of Public Outreach

at the Space Telescope, where he developed museum exhibitions about the Hubble Space Telescope and was the scientist behind NASA's HubbleSite. His research interests range from interstellar processes in our own galaxy to the clustering of galaxies in the early universe. He is married to coauthor Megan Donahue, and they try to play outdoors with their three children whenever possible, enjoying hiking, camping, running, and orienteering.Mark is also author of the popular book Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe.

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• Cosmic Perspective, The, 6/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2010  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Paper; 832 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321633660  |  ISBN-13: 9780321633668
  Suggested retail price: $152.47  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $114.35  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive coverage, The Cosmic Perspective, Sixth Edition provides the most engaging and up-to-date introduction to astronomy for non-science majors. The text provides a wealth of features to help enhance student skill building, including new Visual Skills Check end-of-chapter questions that provide an opportunity for students to test their visual interpretation skills, new Cosmic Context Figures that help students synthesize key concepts and processes, and a new comprehensive visual overview of scale to help students explore the scale of time and space. The Sixth Edition has also been fully updated to include the latest astronomical observations, research, and theoretical developments. The text is supported by the most robust package of instructor.

   

  Two volumes of this text are also available:

  • The Cosmic Perspective: The Solar System, Sixth Edition (includes Chapters 1-13, 24)
  • The Cosmic Perspective: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology, Sixth Edition (includes Chapters 1-6,  S2-S4, 14-24)

  
  
  

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• Cosmic Perspective, The, Books a la Carte Edition, 6/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2010  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Unbound (Saleable); 832 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321696085  |  ISBN-13: 9780321696083
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• Cosmic Perspective, The, Books a la Carte Plus MasteringAstronomy®, 6/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2010  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Multiple Media Package  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321731344  |  ISBN-13: 9780321731340
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• Cosmic Perspective, The, CourseSmart eTextbook, 6/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2010  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Electronic Book; 832 pp  |  Available
  ISBN-10: 0321633814  |  ISBN-13: 9780321633811
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• Cosmic Perspective, The: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology, 6/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2010  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Paper; 624 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321642708  |  ISBN-13: 9780321642707
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  Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive coverage, The Cosmic Perspective: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology, Sixth Edition provides the most engaging and up-to-date introduction to astronomy for non-science majors. The text provides a wealth of features to help enhance student skill building, including new Visual Skills Check end-of-chapter questions that provide an opportunity for students to test their visual interpretation skills, new Cosmic Context Figures that help students synthesize key concepts and processes, and a new comprehensive visual overview of scale to help students explore the scale of time and space. The Sixth Edition has also been fully updated to include the latest astronomical observations, research, and theoretical developments. The text is supported by the most robust package of instructor ancillaries, and MasteringAstronomy^™, the market-leading online tutorial and homework system, has been updated to include a wealth of new content to help students learn and review more efficiently outside of class.

   

  This Volume includes Chapters 1-6, S2-S4, and 14-24 of the main text.

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• Cosmic Perspective, The: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology with MasteringAstronomy™, 6/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2010  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Paper Package; 624 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321642686  |  ISBN-13: 9780321642684
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  Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive coverage, The Cosmic Perspective: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology, Sixth Edition provides the most engaging and up-to-date introduction to astronomy for non-science majors. The text provides a wealth of features to help enhance student skill building, including new Visual Skills Check end-of-chapter questions that provide an opportunity for students to test their visual interpretation skills, new Cosmic Context Figures that help students synthesize key concepts and processes, and a new comprehensive visual overview of scale to help students explore the scale of time and space. The Sixth Edition has also been fully updated to include the latest astronomical observations, research, and theoretical developments. The text is supported by the most robust package of instructor ancillaries, and MasteringAstronomy^™, the market-leading online tutorial and homework system, has been updated to include a wealth of new content to help students learn and review more efficiently outside of class.

   

  This Volume includes Chapters 1-6,  S2-S4, and 14-24 of the main text.

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• Cosmic Perspective, The: The Solar System, 6/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2010  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Paper; 560 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321642694  |  ISBN-13: 9780321642691
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  Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive coverage, The Cosmic Perspective: The Solar System, Sixth Edition provides the most engaging and up-to-date introduction to astronomy for non-science majors. The text provides a wealth of features to help enhance student skill building, including new Visual Skills Check end-of-chapter questions that provide an opportunity for students to test their visual interpretation skills, new Cosmic Context Figures that help students synthesize key concepts and processes, and a new comprehensive visual overview of scale to help students explore the scale of time and space. The Sixth Edition has also been fully updated to include the latest astronomical observations, research, and theoretical developments. The text is supported by the most robust package of instructor ancillaries.

   

  This Volume includes Chapters 1-13, 14, and 24 of the main text.

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• Cosmic Perspective, The: The Solar System with MasteringAstronomy™, 6/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2010  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Paper Package; 0 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321642678  |  ISBN-13: 9780321642677
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  Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive coverage, The Cosmic Perspective: The Solar System, Sixth Edition provides the most engaging and up-to-date introduction to astronomy for non-science majors. The text provides a wealth of features to help enhance student skill building, including new Visual Skills Check end-of-chapter questions that provide an opportunity for students to test their visual interpretation skills, new Cosmic Context Figures that help students synthesize key concepts and processes, and a new comprehensive visual overview of scale to help students explore the scale of time and space. The Sixth Edition has also been fully updated to include the latest astronomical observations, research, and theoretical developments. The text is supported by the most robust package of instructor ancillaries, and MasteringAstronomy^™, the market-leading online tutorial and homework system, has been updated to include a wealth of new content to help students learn and review more efficiently outside of class.

   

  This Volume includes Chapters Chapters 1-13, 14, and 24 of the main text.

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• MasteringAstronomy™ with Pearson eText Student Access Kit for The Cosmic Perspective, 6/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2010  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Access Card Package  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321696824  |  ISBN-13: 9780321696823
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• Pearson Custom Library: Physics & Astronomy
  Pearson
  ©2012  |  Addison-Wesley  |  On-line Supplement  |  Live
  ISBN-10: 0321774507  |  ISBN-13: 9780321774507
  This online resource is available at no cost at http://www.pearsoncustom.com/custom-library/pearson-custom-library-for-physics-and-astronomy.
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• The Cosmic Perspective, Pearson eText, 6/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2010  |  Addison-Wesley  |  Electronic Book; 736 pp  |  Available
  ISBN-10: 032166163X  |  ISBN-13: 9780321661630
  Online purchase price: $99.15More Info
  

This package contains:
•   Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit, Cosmic Perspective, The, 6/E (2010)
•   Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit, Mastering Astronomy™ with Pearson eText Student Access Kit for The Cosmic Perspective (ME component), 6/E (2010)
•   Carina Software, Voyager: SkyGazer v4.0 College Edition CD-ROM (2010)

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