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Asteroids: A History

Asteroids: A History


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This history of asteroids explains how ideas about asteroids have evolved and provides insights into the evolution of scientific ideas. The author describes how such phenomena as the Moon's craters and dinosaur extinction were gradually, and by some scientists grudgingly, accepted as the results of asteroid impacts. He tells how a band of icy asteroids rimming the solar system, first proposed as a theory in the 1940s, was ignored for more than 40 years until renewed interest and technological breakthroughs confirmed the existence of the Kuiper Belt. Covering all aspects of asteroid investigation, Peebles also chronicles the discovery of Shoemaker-Levy 9, a comet with 22 nuclei that crashed into Jupiter in 1994, releasing many times the energy of the world's nuclear arsenal.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 1. Discovery of the Asteroids Chapter 2 2. Vermin of the Skies Chapter 3 3. The Modern Era Chapter 4 4. Apollos, Amors, Atens, and Close Calls: The Near-Earth Asteroids Chapter 5 5. Far Frontiers: From the Trojans to the Kuiper Belt Chapter 6 6. Asteroid Space Missions Chapter 7 7. The Name's the Thing! Chapter 8 8. 3043 San Diego: The Unwanted Honor Chapter 9 9. Impact Chapter 10 10. Shoemaker-Levy 9 Chapter 11 11. Planetary Defense Chapter 12 12. The Third Century of Asteroid Studies

About the Author :
Curtis Peebles has published ten books and more than forty articles. He is the author of Watch the Skies: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth (1994) and coauthor of Flying Without Wings (1999), both published by the Smithsonian Institution Press.

Review :
"Asteroids: A History includes an astonishing number of facts about the discovery, the naming and fate of the stepchildren of the solar system.... Peebles provides an informative discussion of the pivotal role played by technology in the discovery of smaller and smaller members of this chaotic family." Astronomy "Peebles puts the latest developments in asteroid science in their proper place in a history that dates back to Kepler's inspired guess at locating the asteroid belt.... In recounting controversies sparked by asteroid research, Peebles transports readers far beyond Jupiter and then back again to a huge crater in Arizona.... Peopling his real-life chronicle with unpredictable personalities and punctuating it with feats of intellectual wizardry, Peebles leaves mere science fiction behind." Booklist


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781560989820
  • Publisher: Smithsonian Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
  • Height: 227 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A History
  • Width: 151 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1560989823
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jul 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 397 gr


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