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TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE: Ancient Paths to the Present

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MARCH 2018

• the ringed planet EXPLORING
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• of Saturn’s moons Strange stories
  p. 28
  on methane- •^ Huygens lands
  soaked Titan p. 48


• Cassini’s Under

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Cassini
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astronomers Te x a s
exoplanets search for
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Observatory’s Lowell
refractor historic
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CGX Mount Celestron
reviewed p. 64
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