Disturbing the Solar System : : Impacts, Close Encounters, and Coming Attractions /

Disturbing the Solar System : : Impacts, Close Encounters, and Coming Attractions / / Alan E. Rubin.

The solar system has always been a messy place in which gravity wreaks havoc. Moons form, asteroids and comets crash into planets, ice ages commence, and dinosaurs disappear. By describing the dramatic consequences of such disturbances, this authoritative and entertaining book reveals the fundamenta...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Rubin, Alan E.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2002
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 69 halftones. 31 line illus. 2 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • PART 1 Overview of the Solar System
  • I. A Brief History of the Solar System
  • II. Where Are We? The Location of the Solar System
  • III. Heat Sources
  • PART 2 Earth and Moon
  • IV. The Magnetic Earth
  • V. Ice Ages
  • VI. Origin of the Moon
  • PART 3 Small Bodies, Impacts, and Rings
  • VII. Asteroids and Meteorites
  • VIII. What Heated the Asteroids?
  • IX. Mesosiderites: Biography of a Shocked and Melted Asteroid
  • X. Meteor Crater
  • XI. The Lunar Crater Controversy—a Brief Retelling
  • XII. Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction
  • XIII. Recent Impacts: Tunguska to Shoemaker-Levy 9
  • XIV. Tektites: A Glass Menagerie
  • XV. Rings and Shepherds
  • PART 4 Life beyond Earth
  • XVI. The Search for Life on Mars
  • XVII. Panspermia
  • XVIII. Paucity of Aliens
  • XIX. Human Response to First Contact
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary
  • Additional Reading
  • Index

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