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Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets Audiobook by Andrew May
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ID: 526401
Title: Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
Author: Andrew May
Narrator: Shaun Grindell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 08-03-21
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics
Summary:
As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last decade of the 20th century with the realization that the dinosaurs were wiped out by just such an impact. Now the science community is making up for lost time, with worldwide efforts to track the thousands of potentially hazardous near-Earth objects and plans for high-tech hardware that could deflect an incoming object from a collision coursea procedure depicted, with little regard for scientific accuracy, in several Hollywood movies. Astrophysicist and science writer Andrew May disentangles fact from fiction in this fast-moving and entertaining account, covering the nature and history of comets and asteroids, the reason why some orbits are more hazardous than others, the devastating local and global effects that an impact event would produce, andmore optimisticallythe way future space missions could avert a catastrophe.
Contact: [email protected]
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By hotaudiobook.comListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 526401
Title: Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
Author: Andrew May
Narrator: Shaun Grindell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 04:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 08-03-21
Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics
Summary:
As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last decade of the 20th century with the realization that the dinosaurs were wiped out by just such an impact. Now the science community is making up for lost time, with worldwide efforts to track the thousands of potentially hazardous near-Earth objects and plans for high-tech hardware that could deflect an incoming object from a collision coursea procedure depicted, with little regard for scientific accuracy, in several Hollywood movies. Astrophysicist and science writer Andrew May disentangles fact from fiction in this fast-moving and entertaining account, covering the nature and history of comets and asteroids, the reason why some orbits are more hazardous than others, the devastating local and global effects that an impact event would produce, andmore optimisticallythe way future space missions could avert a catastrophe.
Contact: [email protected]