Meteorite - The Stones From Outer Space That Made Our World

Every rock has a story tell, and none more so than those which have fallen from the sky: meteorites, Originating in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, these rocky fragments offer clues not just to the earliest origins of the Solar System but also to Earth's very survival into the future,

Sky at Night presenter, Dr Tim Gregory takes us on a journey through the very earliest days of our Solar System to the spectacular meteorite falls that produced 'fiery rain' in 1792, to the pre-solar grains (literally stardust) that were blown in from other solar systems and are the oldest solid objects ever discovered on earth,

Meteorites reveal a story much bigger than ourselves or our planet, As Tim says, 'it is an epic beyond compare',

About the author

Tim Gregory is a nuclear scientist at Sellafield, United Kingdom, where he measures the chemistry and radioactivity of nuclear materials in the lab. Previously, Tim was an academic specialising in cosmochemistry and wrote the popular book Meteorites: The Stones from Outer Space that Made Our World. He has a PhD from the University of Bristol and lives in the North of England.

Summary

'A treasure-trove of knowledge . . . full of wonder at the cosmos' DAILY TELEGRAPH

Product details

• Authors: Tim Gregory
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.08.2021
• EAN: 9781529327663
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-2766-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Astrophysics, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, SCIENCE / Space Science, Geology, geomorphology & the lithosphere, Meteorology & climatology, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere