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Asteroid

Earth Destroyer or New Frontier?

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 1-7
  3. Major Minor Planets

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 9-24
  4. Tighten the Belt

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 25-41
  5. The Planet that Never was?

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 42-55
  6. Shape of Things to Come

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 56-74
  7. Composing Minor Planets

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 75-91
  8. Findings from Afar

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 92-115
  9. Cometary Cousins

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 116-132
  10. What Else is Out there?

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 133-151
  11. The Scarred and Cratered Earth

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 152-179
  12. Fighting Extinctions

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 180-193
  13. Blaming it on Impacts

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 194-209
  14. Noticing Near-Earthers

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 210-222
  15. Imagining “What If?”

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 223-241
  16. The Hunt and the Hunted

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 242-259
  17. Resources for the Future

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 260-272
  18. Epilogue Can we Become the Watchers?

    • Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Pages 273-276
  19. Back Matter

    Pages 277-292

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Asteroid

  • Book Subtitle: Earth Destroyer or New Frontier?

  • Authors: Patricia Barnes-Svarney

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6148-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Patricia Barnes-Svarney 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45408-0Published: 01 January 1996

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-6148-8Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 292

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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