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Past Issues of The Planetary Report
Humans On Other Worlds
Visions of 2010, by Louis D. Friedman; Looking Spaceward: Life, Work and Leisure...Out There, by Arnauld Nicogossian; Living on the Moon, by James D. Burke; Returning to the Moon, by Harrison H. Schmitt; The Case for Mars, by Christopher P. McKay
Planetary Catastrophes
Planets and Perils, by Owen B. Toon; Volcanoes and Atmospheres: Catastrophic Influences on Planets, by Susan Werner Kieffer; A Talk With Eugene Shoemaker, by Charlene Anderson; Greenhouses and Glaciers: Climate Change and the Continuously Habitable Zone Around the Sun, by James F. Kasting; Precessing Worlds: Planetary Spin and Climatic Stability, by William R. Ward; Intelligence and Catastrophe: The Cosmic Quarantine Hypothesis, by Steven Soter
Volcanoes and Lightning
Seeding the Galaxy: The Los Alamos Conference on Interstellar Migrations, by Eric M. Jones and Ben R. Finney; Dust Disk Discovered Orbiting Star, by Lyndine McAfee; Lightning, Clouds and Volcanoes: Searching for Lightning on Venus, by Leonid V. Ksanfomaliti
Extra-Solar Planets
In Search of Other Worlds, by David C. Black; Are There Worlds Everywhere? by Eugene H. Levy; Dust Disks Around Young Stars, by Martin Cohen; Evidence for Sub-Stellar Companions, by D. W. McCarthy, Jr.; The Suns in the Sky: Multiple Stars and Planetary Systems, by R. S. Harrington; Astrometry: The Search for Other Planetary Systems, by John W. Stein; Spectroscopic Searches for Other Planetary Systems, by Robert S. McMillan; The Space Telescope's Search for Planets Around Other Stars, by Jane Russell
Working in Space
Considering a Space Station; Names on Distant Worlds, by James D. Burke; Pallas Report, by Clark R. Chapman; Giuseppe Colombo, by Louis D. Friedman
Order from Chaos
Asteroid Project Discovers Ten New Asteroids, by Charlene Anderson; The Next Step to Mars, by Michael H. Carr; Order from Chaos: The Atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, by Andrew P. Ingersoll