Comets
eBook - ePub

Comets

Creators And Destroyers

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Comets

Creators And Destroyers

About this book

David Levy brings these "ghostly apparitions" to life. With fascinating scenarios both real and imagined, he shows how comets have wreaked their special havoc on Earth and other planets. Beginning with ground zero as comets take form, we track the paths their icy, rocky masses take around our universe and investigate the enormous potential that future comets have to directly affect the way we live on this planet and what we might find as we travel to other planets. In this extraordinary volume, David Levy shines his expert light on a subject that has long captivated our imaginations and fears, and demonstrates the need for our continued and rapt attention.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Dedication
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter One From Dust to Dust
  8. Chapter Two Four Billion Years Ago
  9. Chapter Three Comets and the Origin of Life
  10. Chapter Four Three Billion Years Ago
  11. Chapter Five Sixty Five Million Years Ago
  12. Chapter Six Comets are Double Edged Swords
  13. Chapter Seven Earth’s First Cold War
  14. Chapter Eight A Time for Comets
  15. Chapter Nine A Field of Dreams
  16. Chapter Ten Target Earth
  17. Chapter Eleven Three Little Worlds
  18. Chapter Twelve Probing for Life in our Galaxy
  19. Chapter Thirteen Yes Virginia Comets Do Hit Planets
  20. Chapter Fourteenprescription for Doomsday
  21. Chapter Fifteenan Epilogue
  22. Notes
  23. Index

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