Near-Earth Objects - Finding Them Before They Find Us

Zusatztext " Near-Earth Objects is an excellent, short, very detailed, complete reference on rocks flying through Earth-space. . . . [T]his book is highly recommended. It is a wonderful resource, very well written and full of great footnotes." ---Haym Benaroya, Quest Informationen zum Autor Donald K. Yeomans is a Fellow and Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a recipient of NASA's highest award, the Distinguished Service Medal. Klappentext Yeomans takes readers behind the scenes of today's efforts to find, track, and study near-Earth objects. He shows how the same comets and asteroids most likely to collide with us could also be mined for precious natural resources like water and oxygen, and used as watering holes and fueling stations for expeditions to Mars and the outermost reaches of our solar system. Zusammenfassung Of all the natural disasters that could befall us, only an Earth impact by a large comet or asteroid has the potential to end civilization in a single blow. Yet these near-Earth objects also offer tantalizing clues to our solar system's origins, and someday could even serve as stepping-stones for space exploration. In this book, Donald Yeomans intr

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• Autori: Donald K Yeomans, Donald K. Yeomans, Donald K./ Yeomans Yeomans, Yeomans Donald K.
• Con la collaborazione di: Donald K. Yeomans (Prefazione), Yeomans Donald K. (Prefazione)
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2016
• EAN: 9780691173337
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17333-7
• Pagine: 192
• Categorie: Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Astronomia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Fisica, astronomia > Astronomia; NATURE / Sky Observation, Popular astronomy & space, Popular astronomy and space