Impact! : the threat of comets and asteroids
Gerrit L. Verschuur (Author)
Until recently collisions between the Earth and a comet were thought to be so rare that the threat to life on Earth from such objects was dismissed as being too unlikely to worry about. This book shows the threats and precarious nature of life here
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, map
9781280471278, 9780198026174, 9786610471270, 9781423739043, 9780195353273, 9781602562707, 9780197561232, 1280471271, 019802617X, 6610471274, 1423739043, 0195353277, 1602562709, 0197561233
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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Acknowledgments
Content
1: The Killer Strikes
2: The Saga of the Chicxulub Crater
3: Solar System Debris
4: Something About Comets
5: The Birth of the Earth
6: The Nineteenthcentury Perspective
7: Twentieth-Century Rumblings
8: Comet Impacts in History
9: On the Edge of Extinction
10: Reconstructing the Crime
11: Death Star or Coherent Catastrophism?
12: Craters and Tsunamis
13: Offering Odds on Impact
14: The Great Comet Crash of 1994
15: The Aftermath
16: The Search
17: Dodging the Asteroids?
18: Our Place in Space
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
Originally published: New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996
English
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