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Rogue asteroids and doomsday comets : the search for the million megaton menace that threatens life on Earth
- Title
- Rogue asteroids and doomsday comets : the search for the million megaton menace that threatens life on Earth / Duncan Steel ; foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.
- Author
- Steel, Duncan, 1955-
- Publication
- New York : Wiley, ©1995.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008
- Description
- xii, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- The search for the million megaton menace that threatens life on Earth.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Popular works
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-296) and index.
- Contents
- Fiddling while Rome burns -- The swarm around us -- Catastrophic scenarios -- The world on fire -- Holes in the ground: The evidence for past impacts -- The story of the stones -- Coherent catastrophism -- Stonehenge and the pyramids -- False security: The atmosphere's shield -- Great efforts, great ignorance -- So began project Spaceguard -- Showdown at Los Alamos -- Keeping our fingers crossed -- Epilogue: The crash of '94 -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0471308242
- 9780471308249
- 0471193380
- 9780471193388
- LCCN
- 94023409
- OCLC
- ocm31045313
- 31045313
- SCSB-2052265
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library