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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 152
Pages: 152
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-21 - Publisher: National Academies Press
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Language: en
Pages: 111
Pages: 111
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher:
Scientists classify comets and asteroids that pass within 28 million miles of Earth's orbit as near-Earth objects (NEOs). Asteroids that collide and break into
Language: en
Pages: 294
Pages: 294
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:
Presents a realistic, workable plan for defusing a potentially lethal threat from a rogue asteroid or comet. The explosion of a large meteor over Chelyabinsk, S
Language: en
Pages: 44
Pages: 44
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-05-04 - Publisher: National Academies Press
Comets and asteroids are in some sense the fossils of the solar system. They have avoided most of the drastic physical processing that shaped the planets and th