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Asteroids : how love, fear, and greed will determine our future in space /
Human travel into space is an enormously expensive and unforgiving endeavor. So why go? In this accessible and authoritative book, astrophysicist Martin Elvis argues that the answer is the asteroid exploration, for motives of love, fear, and greed. Elvis's personal motivation is one of scientif...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: why boldly go?
- Part 1. The scene
- 1. Asteroids: a primer
- Part II. Motive
- 2. Love
- 3. Fear
- 4. Greed
- Part III. Means
- 5. Love: doing science with asteroids
- 6. Fear: how to handle the asteroid threat
- 7. Greed: asteroid prospecting
- Part IV. Opportunity
- 8. Getting space off the ground
- 9. Making space safe for capitalism
- 10. In the long run.