David Levy

Comets

Creators and Destroyers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Introductory guide to comets, which covers their genesis and history, the latest scientific discoveries, and suggests their subtle influence on human behaviour. With three films on comets due for release this year, including )Deep Impact( for which Levy was Scientific Adviser, this will no doubt be the first of many comet books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Touchstone
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780684852553
• ISBN-10: 0684852551
• Artikelnr.: 22004133

Autorenporträt

David H. Levy is the co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy, which slammed into Jupiter in 1994 in a series of spectacular explosions with a force equal to several million tons of TNT. He is the author of More Things in Heaven and Earth, the Man Who Sold the Milky Way, The Ultimate Universe and Impact Jupiter. Levy was asked by Parade Magazine to take over the science column after the death of Carl Sagan. Levy is also the editor of The Scientific American Book of the Cosmos.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Preface GHOSTLY APPARITIONS IN THE NIGHT 11
One FROM DUST TO DUST 17
Two FOUR BILLION YEARS AGO 37
Three COMETS AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE 57
Four THREE BILLION YEARS AGO 71
Five SIXTY-FIVE MILLION YEARS AGO 87
Six COMETS ARE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORDS 103
Seven EARTH'S FIRST COLD WAR 115
Eight A TIME FOR COMETS 125
Nine A FIELD OF DREAMS 139
Ten TARGET EARTH 153
Eleven THREE LITTLE WORLDS 173
Twelve PROBING FOR LIFE IN OUR GALAXY 185
Thirteen YES, VIRGINIA, COMETS DO HIT PLANETS 197
Fourteen PRESCRIPTION FOR DOOMSDAY 215
Fifteen AN EPILOGUE 231
NOTES 239
INDEX 245