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Impact! : the threat of comets and asteroids / Gerrit L. Verschuur.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Verschuur, Gerrit L., 1937- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comets.
- Asteroids.
- Impact craters.
- Extinction (Biology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Until 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.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and publisher information.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780197561232
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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