Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
Disturbing the solar system : impacts, close encounters, and coming attractions / Alan E. Rubin.
Author
Rubin, Alan E. (Alan Edward), 1953-
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
Description
xv, 361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Availability
Available Online
De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Lewis Library - Stacks
QB339 .R84 2002
Browse related items
Request
Lewis Library - Stacks
QB339 .R84 2002
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Catastrophes (Geology)
[Browse]
Life on other planets
[Browse]
Gravity
[Browse]
Solar system
[Browse]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-352) and index.
Contents
Overview of the solar system: A brief history of the solar system. Where are we? The location of the solar system. Heat sources
Earth and moon: The magnetic Earth. Ice ages. Origin of the Moon
Small bodies, impacts, and rings: Asteroids 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
Life beyond Earth: The search for life on Mars. Panspermia. Paucity of aliens. Human response to first contact.
Show 1 more Contents items
ISBN
0691074747 ((alk. paper))
9780691074740 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2001055197
OCLC
48221485
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information
Other versions
Disturbing the solar system : impacts, close encounters, and coming attractions / Alan E. Rubin.
id
99129013450906421
Disturbing the solar system : impacts, close encounters, and coming attractions / Alan E. Rubin.
id
SCSB-8711649