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Magazine and Newspaper Articles

by Robert Zimmerman

Ad Astra

• July/August 2000, Part II: Brave New World? American Colonial History as a Guide to Building Space Societies
• May/June 2000, Part I: Brave New World? American Colonial History as a Guide to Building Space Societies

Air & Space Smithsonian Magazine

• in press, Mr. Fix-it: the Story of Frank Cepollina and Servicing in Space
• September 2003, Growing Pains: Agriculture in Space

American History

• April 2001, Escape from the Iroquois

Astronomy

• in press, The first extrasolar planet weather reports
• October 2009, Epsilon Aurigae: Astronomy's longest-running mystery show
  
• October 2008, Taking Venus by Storm: The results from Venus Express
  
• July 2008, Cover story: The Life and Death of Super Suns: the secrets of Wolf-Rayet stars
  
• February 2007, What Makes Mira Tick?
  
• July 2006, Witness to Cosmic Collisions: The Swift Telescope Helps Unlock the Mystery of Short Gamma Ray Bursts
  
• December 2005, The Man Who Doubled the Sky: John Herschel's Survey of the Heavens
  
• November 2004, More Bad Culture at NASA? Op-ed at Astronomy.com.
  
• November 2004, Cover story: The Looming Death of the Hubble Space Telescope?
  
• August 2004, Seeking Other Earths: the Search for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets
  
• 2005 Annual Issue (published August 2004), The High Energy Zoo: A Tour of Killer Objects in Space
  
• December 2001, Cover story: Launching a Caravan to Mars: America's aggressive Mars exploration program
  
• October 2001, Cover story: Heart of Darkness: the Center of the Milky Way
  
• September 2001, A Square Dance in Space: the center of a globular cluster
  
• June 2001, Cover story: Inside-Out Cosmology: the Astronomy of Physics
  
• May 2001, Cover story: Seeing with X-Ray Eyes: Chandra's First Discoveries
  
• May 2001, NEAR-Shoemaker Scores a Touchdown
  
• May 2000, Speed Matters
  
• May 2000, NEAR Arrives Right on Target
  
• February 2000, Scoping out a Monster Star: Eta Carinae
  
• November 1999, When Disaster Strikes
  
• February 1999, Mashed Potatoes and Ice Cream Sundaes
  
• November 1998, Cover story: Into the Malstrom: a Visit to the Crab Nebula
  
• April 1997, When Neutron Stars Collide
  
• March 1995, Polaris, the Code-Blue Star
  

BBC Sky At Night

• May 2009, Light from the Unknown

Fortune

• October 18, 1993, Shelf Lives and Videotape

Ideas on Liberty

• June 1994, By Any Means Necessary?
  
• March 1994, Our Own Mad Clockwork
  
• January 1994, A Level Playing Field
  
• January 1993, Finding a Job
  
• August 1992, Three's a Crowd
  
• June 1992, Saying Yes
  
• May 1992, Street Performers and the Social Contract
  
• April 1992, New York's War Against the Vans
  
• March 1992, Czechoslovakia on the Hudson
  

Immersed

• Summer 1996, The World in a Jar

Invention & Technology

• Fall 2002, More Light, the Story Behind Today's Monster Telescopes
• Fall 2001, Cover Story: Docking in Space: How the Gemini Astronauts Made It Happen
• Fall 2000, Telstar and the Birth of the Communications Satellite
• Fall 1998, Log Flume
• Spring 1998, How to Fly Without a Plane
  
• Winter 1998, Bathtub in the Sky
  

Muse

• April 2002, Weightlessness!
  
• April 2002, To the Moon and Back: the Flight of Apollo 11

Natural History

• April 2004, No-Fly Zone: Birds in Space
  
• March 2004, Deep Impressions: The Core of the Earth
  

Page 99 Test

• Web essay, May 25, 2008 posting

Return to the Moon: A Collection of Essays

• 2005: Brave New World?

Science

• May 29, 2009, Biologists Struggle to Solve Bat Deaths

ScienceNow

• May 8, 2009, Sun's Behavior Flummoxes Solar Scientists

Sciscoop

• Web Interview: May 19, 2004 posting of Sciscoop Interview

Sky & Telescope

• October 2009, Become a Super Amateur: Amateurs astronomers do original research
• August 2009, cover story, What is Wrong With the Sun?
• April 2009, Cosmic Cataclysms: The Merger of Supermassive Black Holes
• November 1997, Explorers of the Unknown

Stardate

• November/December 2009, Looking Way Out There From Way Out There: The Future of Space Astronomy
• March/April 2009, Understanding Beta Lyrae: A Very Messy Star Seen for the First Time
• July/August 1999, Cover Story: Sun Up, the Coming Solar Maximum
  
• November/December 1998, Martian Invasion
  
• November/December 1998, More Delays Likely for International Space Station
  
• September/October 1997, Next Stop: Saturn and the Moon
• July/August 1997, Cover Story: The Search for the Heliosphere

The Sciences

• March 2002 (Update Magazine), Cover Story: Final Descent, NEAR's Mission to Eros
• September/October 2000, Lost City, the archaeology on Jamestown Island
  
• January/February 2000, There She Blows
      --co-winner of the David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism.
  
• July/August 1999, This is the Way the World Ended
  
• November/December 1998, Photo Finish
  
• March/April 1998, On a Clear Day you Can See Forever
  
• March/April 1998, Hard Rain
• November/December 1997, Silent Springs
• September/October 1997, Sahel of a Trip
• July/August 1997, Just Say Nyet!
• July/August 1997, Twinkle, Twinkle
• May/June 1997, Galactic Garbos
• March/April 1997, An Accomodating Comet
  
• March/April 1997, Moon Rivers
  
• January/February 1997, Stormy Weather
  
• September/October 1996, The Rainbow's Not Enough
  
• July/August 1996, Beautiful Streamers
  
• May/June 1996, First Light
  
• March/April 1996, Telescopic Vision
  
• January/February 1996, The Shadow Boxer
  
• July/August 1995, Harvest Moon
  
• March/April 1995, The Hubble Inconstant
  
• November/December 1994, Five Million Years of Solitude
• September/October 1994, Circle Games
  
• July/August 1994, The Sun Factor
  
• May/June 1994, No Place Like Home
  
• March/April 1994, Stellar Vision
  
• January/February 1994, Computer Ear
  
• September/October 1993, Shelf Lives and Videotape
• July/August 1990, Dark Passage

USA Today

• September 24, 2003, Op-Ed: Say no to NASA, yes to private companies

Wall Street Journal

• September 23, 1998, Are the Russians out to Launch or out to Lunch?
  
• July 14, 1997, Lost in Space

Wired

• October 4, 2005, Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery Unraveled
  

Various Published Cave Exploration Articles

• June 2009, The Cassell Cave Project, Monograph #3 of the West Virginia Speleological Survey.
• The Discovery of Pearl Harbor Passage in Memorial Day Cave, December 7, 2004. The Potomac Speleological Club website, December 8, 2005.
  
• A Historic Review of the First Cassell Cave Survey, The Potomac Caver, January/February 2000
  
• Flood in McFails Cave, New York, The Northeastern Caver, September 1996
  
• The Lightweight Simple Knots System, Nylon Highway, June 1993
• The Lesser Caves of Watertown, guidebook for the Fall 1992 meeting of the Northeast Region Organization of the National Speleological Society.
• The Geology of Brown's Depression: Predicting a Cave Discovery, Met Grotto News, December 1991
• A Journey into Dreamland, Mapping in McFails Cave, The Northeastern Caver, September 1991
• A Short Stroll to Asia Dome, Exploration/Mapping in McFails Cave, The Northeastern Caver, March 1991
• A Course in Caving Single Rope Techniques, Met Grotto News, December 1989
• Beyond The End, Exploration/Mapping in McFails Cave, The Northeastern Caver, Fall 1989
• Kingston Delaware Mine, Survey and Map, Met Grotto News, May 1989
• Discovery and Mapping of Here Today Cave, Met Grotto News, May/June & July/August 1986

			Also by Robert Zimmerman.
Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8	The Chronological Encyclopedia of Discoveries in Space	Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel

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