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200 10$aImpact! $ethe threat of comets and asteroids /$fGerrit L. Verschuur
210  1$aOxford, [England] :$cOxford University Press,$d1997.
210  4$dİ1996
215   $a1 online resource (256p. ) $cill., facsims., map
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300   $aPreviously issued in print: 1996.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
327   $aCover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Content -- 1: The Killer Strikes -- 2: The Saga of the Chicxulub Crater -- 3: Solar System Debris -- 4: Something About Comets -- 5: The Birth of the Earth -- 6: The Nineteenthcentury Perspective -- 7: Twentieth-Century Rumblings -- 8: Comet Impacts in History -- 9: On the Edge of Extinction -- 10: Reconstructing the Crime -- 11: Death Star or Coherent Catastrophism? -- 12: Craters and Tsunamis -- 13: Offering Odds on Impact -- 14: The Great Comet Crash of 1994 -- 15: The Aftermath -- 16: The Search -- 17: Dodging the Asteroids? -- 18: Our Place in Space -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
330 8 $aUntil recently collisions between the Earth and a comet were thought to be so rare that the threat to life on Earth from such objects was dismissed as being too unlikely to worry about. This book shows the threats and precarious nature of life here.
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606   $aComets
606   $aAsteroids
606   $aImpact
606   $aEvolution (Biology)
607   $aEarth (Planet)
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615  0$aAsteroids.
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