Cosmic Impact
Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with anasteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only inthe last decade of the 20th century with the realisation that the dinosaurs hadbeen wiped out by just such an impact. Now the science community is making up for lost time, withworldwide efforts to track the thousands of potentially hazardous near-Earthobjects, and plans for high-tech hardware that could deflect an incoming objectfrom a collision course - a procedure depicted, with little regard forscientific accuracy, in several Hollywood movies. Astrophysicist and science writer Andrew May disentangl…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78578-494-1
- EAN: 9781785784941
- Produktnummer: 29649797
- Verlag: Icon Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'233 KB
Über den Autor
Andrew May is afreelance writer and science consultant. He has written on subjects as diverseas the physical sciences, military technology, British history and theparanormal. His recent books include pocket-sized biographies of Newton andEinstein, an eye-opening study of the relationship between pseudoscience andscience fiction, and Destination Mars,in the Hot Science series. He lives in Somerset.
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