''Habitable Planets For Man'' is a work by
Stephen Dole, first edition published by Blaisdell Publishing Company, A division of Ginn and Company, copyright 1964 by The
RAND Corporation. Originally 158 pages, it was republished in a posthumous second edition in 2007, as ''Planets for Man''.
The revised edition, 174 pages, contains a detailed scientific study on the nature of worlds that may support life in the universe, the probability of their existence, and ways of finding them.
It includes assessments of 14 stars within 22
light years with a relatively high probability of having
habitable planets (a collective probability of 43%).
Writing in a ''
Scientific American
''Scientific American'', informally abbreviated ''SciAm'' or sometimes ''SA'', is an American popular science magazine. Many famous scientists, including Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla, have contributed articles to it. In print since 1845, it ...
'' blog in 2011, Caleb Scharf called it "extraordinarily detailed and prescient".
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External links
Official RAND Corporation Site
References
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1964 non-fiction books
2007 non-fiction books
Astronomy books