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Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets: The Search for the Million Megaton Menace That Threatens Life on Earth

Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets: The Search for the Million Megaton Menace That Threatens Life on Earth

by Duncan Steel (Author)

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    Hardcover 1995

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Synopsis

Astronomer Duncan Steel provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the serious science behind these predictions. Steel is a world authority on the comet hazard and member of the NASA team set up to study the problem. Here he describes all the latest findings, surveys the fascinating evidence of past impacts, and describes the bold plans proposed to divert an incoming death star before it strikes.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 308
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 08 Jun 1995
ISBN 10: 0471308242
ISBN 13: 9780471308249

Author Bio
About the author DUNCAN STEEL, Ph.D., is a research astronomer at the Anglo-Australian Observatory and a research fellow at the University of Adelaide, Australia. A world-renowned authority on the comet hazard, he has served on both the Detection Committee and the Intercept Committee created by NASA to assess the threat of comet and asteroid collisions and investigate technologies to avert such impacts. He writes regularly for Sky and Space magazine.