Asteroids : a history
"Covering all aspects of asteroid investigation, Curtis Peebles shows how ideas about the orbiting boulders have evolved. He 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 forty years until renewed interest and technological breakthroughs confirmed the existence of the Kuiper Belt. Peebles also chronicles the discovery of Shoemaker-Levy 9, a comet with twenty-two nuclei that crashed into Jupiter in 1994, releasing many times the energy of the world's nuclear arsenal."
eBook, English, ©2000
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, ©2000
1 online resource (vii 280 pages) : illustrations
9781944466046, 1944466045
1409082507
Discovery of the asteroids
Vermin of the skies
The modern era
Apollos, Amors, Atens, and close calls: the near-Earth asteroids
Far frontiers: from the Trojans to the Kuiper Belt
Asteroid space missions
The name's the thing!
3043 San Diego: the unwanted honor
Impact
Shoemaker-Levy 9
Planetary defense
The third century of asteroid studies
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