Asteroid Hunters
eBook - ePub

Asteroid Hunters

  1. 120 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Asteroid Hunters

About this book

Dr Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter - one of the select group of scientists working diligently to map our cosmic neighbourhood. For the first time ever we are reaching the point where we may be able to prevent a natural disaster resulting from an asteroid collision. Nugent will delve into the impact asteroids have had in the past: the extinction of the dinosaurs, the earth-sized hole Shoemaker-Levy 9 left in Jupiter just a few years ago, how the surprise hit on Chelyabinsk in Russia could have started a war and unlucky Ms Anne Hodges - the only person (that we know of) in modern history to be the victim of a direct hit.
Nugent will alsoreveal the cutting-edge work that she is part of - using NASA's NEOWISE telescope to track down near-Earth asteroids. NEOWISE has seen over 158, 000 asteroids and discovered over 30, 000. We will alsoget a rare glimpse into the work of this band of asteroid hunters and their techniques.
Asteroid orbits are chaotic which means a small early change has a big impact later on. The successful hunt and mapping of asteroids could mean nothing less than saving life on Earth.

Information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781471162398
eBook ISBN
9781471162404
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Space Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Chapter 1: A Wild Frontier
  4. Chapter 2: Things That Hit the Earth
  5. Chapter 3: Rules of Asteroid Hunting
  6. Chapter 4: The First Asteroid
  7. Chapter 5: Terrestrial Asteroid Hunting
  8. Chapter 6: My Favorite Telescope
  9. Chapter 7: The Giggle Factor
  10. Chapter 8: The Planetary Defense Coordination Office
  11. Epilogue
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Further Reading
  14. About Carrie Nugent
  15. Watch Carrie Nugent’s TED Talk
  16. Related Talks on TED.com
  17. More from TED Books
  18. About TED Books
  19. About TED
  20. Notes
  21. Copyright

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