Distant wanderers
Subtitle: the search for planets beyond the solar system
Publisher: Copernicus
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780387950747
First sentence: On a clear night in the Northern Hemisphere, cruising the interstate highways across the Great Plains of the U.S., or ambling the foredecks of the old car ferries that still run the channel between the U.K. and France, the naked eye can discern some 5000 stars.