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Impact! : the threat of comets and asteroids /
In Impact, Gerrit L. Verschuur offers an eye-opening look at catastrophic collisions with our planet. Perhaps more important, he paints an unsettling portrait of the possibility of new collisions with earth, exploring potential threats to our planet and describing what scientists are doing right now...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997, ©1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ch. 1. Killer strikes
- ch. 2. Saga of the Chicxulub Crater
- ch. 3. Solar system debris
- ch. 4. Something about comets
- ch. 5. Birth of the earth
- ch. 6. Nineteenth-century perspective
- ch. 7. Twentieth-century rumblings
- ch. 8. Comet impacts in history
- ch. 9. On the edge of extinction
- ch. 10. Reconstructing the crime
- ch. 11. Death star of coherent catastrophism
- ch. 12. Craters and tsunamis
- ch. 13. Offering odds on impact
- ch. 14. Great comet crash of 1994
- ch. 15. Aftermath
- ch. 16. Search
- ch. 17. Dodging the asteroids
- ch. 18. Our place in space.