Lunar and Planetary Institute

Lunar and Planetary Institute is a research institute at Houston and United States. It was established in 1968.

Also recorded as LPI; Lunar & Planetary Institute; Universities Space Research Association Lunar and Planetary Institute; Lunar Science Institute (LSI).

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Constitution and standing

It is classified as research institute, nonprofit organization and publishing house.

It works in astronomy, geology, planetary geology and geophysics. It comprises Lunar Exploration Analysis Group.

Identity

What the record establishes about Lunar and Planetary Institute.

Collection of short medical tracts and excerpts, mainly astrological (Miscellanea XV) is dated c.1450-1500 and held by Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection records 1 object associated with this heading. Lunar and Planetary Institute is associated with United States. Lunar and Planetary Institute is recorded from 1968. LPI contribution is dated 1978.

Holdings and surviving copies

NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources (2005) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. 3-D Tour of the Solar System CD-ROM (1997) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.

Authority records

The identifiers under which Lunar and Planetary Institute may be traced in institutional catalogues.

Lunar and Planetary Institute is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q239221.

Literature

6 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Lunar and Planetary Institute Topical Conference processes of Planetary Rifting, Tectonophysics, 1981. Proceedings of the 18th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Cambridge University Press and The Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1988. No of pages: 753. Price £60.00 (hardback)., Geological Journal, 1989. Impact heat driven volatile redistribution at Occator crater on Ceres as a comparative planetary process, Nature Communications, 2020. The Properties and Origin of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth's Large Mounds, The Planetary Science Journal, 2023. Planetary Waves Traveling Between Mars Science Laboratory and Mars 2020, Geophysical Research Letters, 2022. Surface Features of Ganymede Revealed in Jupiter‐Shine by Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit, Geophysical Research Letters, 2022.

Naming and authority record

This heading is established in Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (2053624-0). Those registers additionally record the form Universities Space Research Association. Lunar and Planetary Institute.

Digitised editions and texts

1 digitised item associated with this heading is catalogued by Internet Archive.

Lunar and planetary science XXII (Part 3) (1991) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 10 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 7 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1450Collection of short medical tracts and excerpts, mainly astrological (Miscellanea XV) is dated c.1450-1500 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  2. 1450Collection of short medical tracts and excerpts, mainly astrological (Miscellanea XV) (Wellcome Collection).
  3. 1968Lunar and Planetary Institute established.
  4. 1968Lunar and Planetary Institute is recorded from 1968.
  5. 1978LPI contribution is dated 1978.
  6. 1978LPI contribution.
  7. 1991Lunar and planetary science XXII (Part 3) digitised by Internet Archive.
  8. 19973-D Tour of the Solar System CD-ROM (1997) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  9. 19973-D Tour of the Solar System CD-ROM digitised by Internet Archive.
  10. 2005NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources (2005) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  11. 2005NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Conferences sponsored by the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Icarus, 1990

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Lunar and Planetary Institute Topical Conference processes of Planetary Rifting, Tectonophysics, 1981

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Lunar and Planetary Institute, Choice Reviews Online, 2006

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Proceedings of the 18th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Cambridge University Press and The Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1988. No of pages: 753. Price £60.00 (hardback)., Geological Journal, 1989

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    The Moon: <i>Planetary Science</i> . A Lunar Perspective. Stuart Ross Taylor. Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, 1982. xx, 482 pp., illus. $39.95., Science, 1982

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 56 articles naming Lunar and Planetary Institute.

    open access index · Unverified

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  7. 7.

    Gemeinsame Normdatei 2053624-0, Lunar and Planetary Institute (Houston, Tex.).

    authority file · Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

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  8. 8.

    Internet Archive, 3 digitised items catalogued under Lunar and Planetary Institute as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  9. 9.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 1 work naming Lunar and Planetary Institute.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  10. 10.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q239221: Lunar and Planetary Institute

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

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  11. 11.

    “Lunar and Planetary Institute”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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Plates

Each plate is reproduced under the terms the holding register itself publishes, with its creator and licence named.

Lunar and Planetary Institute, from the Wikimedia Commons record.

Lunar and Planetary Institute, from the Wikimedia Commons record.

Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

The picture record
Arsia Mons is one of the huge volcanoes located on the Tharsis Bulge region of Mars. This photo mosaic shows a close-up view of its vast caldera which is 120 km across. In this visual the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area is shown at the same scale. Prepared for NASA by Stephen Paul Meszaros.

Arsia Mons is one of the huge volcanoes located on the Tharsis Bulge region of Mars. This photo mosaic shows a close-up view of its vast caldera which is 120 km across. In this visual the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area is shown at the same scale. Prepared for NASA by Stephen Paul Meszaros.

Lunar and Planetary Institute from Houston, TX, USA · Arsia Mons and Los Angeles · CC BY 2.0

The picture record

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