Disturbing the solar system : impacts, close encounters, and coming attractions / Alan E. Rubin.

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Main Author: Rubin, Alan E. (Alan Edward), 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.
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245 1 0 |a Disturbing the solar system :  |b impacts, close encounters, and coming attractions /  |c Alan E. Rubin. 
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300 |a xv, 361 p. :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-352) and index. 
505 0 |a PART 1: OVERVIEW OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM: A brief history of the Solar System -- Where are we? The location of the Solar System -- Heat sources -- PART 2: EARTH AND MOON: The magnetic Earth -- Ice ages -- Origin of the Moon -- PART 3: SMALL BODIES, IMPACTS, AND RINGS: Asteriods and meteorites -- What heated the asteroids -- Mesosiderites: biography of a shocked and melted asteroid -- Meteor crater -- The lunar crater controversy: a brief retelling -- Dinosaurs and the cretaceous-tertiary extinction -- Recent impacts: Tunguska to Shoemaker-Levy 9 -- Rings and shepherds -- PART 4: LIFE BEYOND EARTH: The search for life on Mars -- Panspermia -- Paucity of aliens -- Human response to first contact. 
650 0 |a Gravity. 
650 0 |a Catastrophes (Geology) 
650 0 |a Life on other planets. 
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