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A look at the creation and composition of asteroids and the frightening eventuality of a collision with the earth.
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Author's comment: 2/5/97
There's an great deal of interest in asteroids lately, including several television shows. This book gives you a good synopsis of just what are asteroids, how we search for the ones that come close to the Earth--and what the real danger is (are) from these space objects. My book also takes the close-to-the-Earth asteroids (logically called near-Earth asteroids) a bit farther, stressing what good may come from these interlopers--especially as in materials we can use to expand into space. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
There's an great deal of interest in asteroids lately, including several television shows. This book gives you a good synopsis of just what are asteroids, how we search for the ones that come close to the Earth--and what the real danger is (are) from these space objects. My book also takes the close-to-the-Earth asteroids (logically called near-Earth asteroids) a bit farther, stressing what good may come from these interlopers--especially as in materials we can use to expand into space. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Vesta, the third-largest known asteroid in our solar system, is the only asteroid that can be seen with the naked eye. Read the first page
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Vesta, the third-largest known asteroid in our solar system, is the only asteroid that can be seen with the naked eye. Read the first page
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Format:Hardcover
The first chapters are a little bit too technical. However, you will learn a lot about the scientific background on asteroids and impacts. The chapters on how Earth has been hit in the past, the summary of the theory about the dinosaur extinction, and how the Chicxulub crater was found, are really good. The book also has a good coverage on subjects such as near-Earth objects, actual near-misses, what if?, and the Spaceguard survey.
If you became interested on these subjects after the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact on Jupiter, or because you are a Sc-Fi fan who like the "hard stuff" and read Clark's "The Hammer of God", Benford's "Shiva Descending", or Niven's "Lucifr's Hammer", this book is for you. You can deepen your scientific knowledge and learn why these fiction novels seem so real, specially those written before the Alvarez paradigm.
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Very good, if you are interested in the subject
30 Oct 1997
Format:Hardcover
The first chapters are a little bit too technical. However, you will learn a lot about the scientific background on asteroids and impacts. The chapters on how Earth has been hit in the past, the summary of the theory about the dinosaur extinction, and how the Chicxulub crater was found, are really good. The book also has a good coverage on subjects such as near-Earth objects, actual near-misses, what if?, and the Spaceguard survey.
If you became interested on these subjects after the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact on Jupiter, or because you are a Sc-Fi fan who like the "hard stuff" and read Clark's "The Hammer of God", Benford's "Shiva Descending", or Niven's "Lucifr's Hammer", this book is for you. You can deepen your scientific knowledge and learn why these fiction novels seem so real, specially those written before the Alvarez paradigm.
The Facts About Asteroids
7 April 2011
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This book has excellent material on the science of asteroids. Much has been learned, though, since was written in 2003. It could use an update with this new information
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