Habitable Planets for Man

First edition (publ. Random House)

Habitable Planets For Man is a work by Stephen Dole originally published for the US Government contractor RAND Corporation in 1964 with input from Isaac Asimov. It was republished in a posthumous second edition in 2007, as Planets for Man.^[1] The 174-page book 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,^[2][3] including assessments of 14 stars within 22 light years with a relatively high probability of having habitable planets (a collective probability of 43%).^[4][5] Writing in a Scientific American blog in 2011, Caleb Scharf called it "extraordinarily detailed and prescient".^[2]

Publication data

• ISBN 0833042270
• ISBN 978-0833042279

External links

• Official RAND Corporation Site

References

1. Stephen H. Dole (1970). Habitable Planets for Man (2nd ed.). New York: American Elsevier.
2. Caleb A. Scharf (September 13, 2011). "The Habitable Planets". Life Unbounded, Scientific American.
3. "Planet Life". Science Notes, The New York Times. July 12, 1964.
4. William C. Saslaw (December 1964). "Review: Habitable Planets for Man by Stephen H. Dole". American Scientist. 52 (4): 466A–477A. JSTOR 27839216.
5. Joe W. Tyson (June 1965). "Review: Habitable Planets for Man by Stephen H. Dole". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 40 (2): 229. doi:10.1086/404644. JSTOR 2819795.