Impact
How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
A noted meteoriticist shows how meteorites have helped build our planet and influenced humanity since the start of civilization.
Contents:
Introduction : and so it begins -- Important early meteorite strikes -- Cosmic cinema for early humans -- Humans and heavens collide -- Prognostication, panic, and scientific progress -- Ingredients for success -- Free samples from mars -- From space to the laboratory -- Meteorite mischief and mitigation -- Modern meteorite research -- Appendices : notes on the basics of meteorite research -- Appendix 1 : the taxonomy man cometh -- Appendix 2 : equipment revolutions.
ISBN:
9780063078925
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SCIENCE Space Bre | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
SCIENCE Space Bre | Sandhills Indoors | Second Level Display, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-276) and index.