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- catalog abstract ""Covering all aspects of asteroid investigation, Curtis Peebles shows how ideas about the orbiting boulders have evolved. He describes how such phenomena as the Moon's craters and dinosaur extinction were gradually, and by some scientists grudgingly, accepted as the results of asteroid impacts. He tells how a band of icy asteroids rimming the solar system, first proposed as a theory in the 1940s, was ignored for more than forty years until renewed interest and technological breakthroughs confirmed the existence of the Kuiper Belt. Peebles also chronicles the discovery of Shoemaker-Levy 9, a comet with twenty-two nuclei that crashed into Jupiter in 1994, releasing many times the energy of the world's nuclear arsenal." "Showing how asteroid research is increasingly collaborative, the book provides insights into the evolution of scientific ideas and the ebb and flow of scientific debate."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11895227.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Covering all aspects of asteroid investigation, Curtis Peebles shows how ideas about the orbiting boulders have evolved. He describes how such phenomena as the Moon's craters and dinosaur extinction were gradually, and by some scientists grudgingly, accepted as the results of asteroid impacts. He tells how a band of icy asteroids rimming the solar system, first proposed as a theory in the 1940s, was ignored for more than forty years until renewed interest and technological breakthroughs confirmed the existence of the Kuiper Belt. Peebles also chronicles the discovery of Shoemaker-Levy 9, a comet with twenty-two nuclei that crashed into Jupiter in 1994, releasing many times the energy of the world's nuclear arsenal."".
- catalog description ""Showing how asteroid research is increasingly collaborative, the book provides insights into the evolution of scientific ideas and the ebb and flow of scientific debate."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Discovery of the asteroids -- Vermin of the skies -- The modern era -- Apollos, Amors, Atens, and close calls: the near-Earth asteroids -- Far frontiers: from the Trojans to the Kuiper Belt -- Asteroid space missions -- The name's the thing! -- 3043 San Diego: the unwanted honor -- Impact -- Shoemaker-Levy 9 -- Planetary defense -- The third century of asteroid studies.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "280 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Asteroids.".
- catalog identifier "1560983892 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Asteroids.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog relation "Asteroids.".
- catalog subject "523.44 21".
- catalog subject "Asteroids.".
- catalog subject "QB651 .P44 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Discovery of the asteroids -- Vermin of the skies -- The modern era -- Apollos, Amors, Atens, and close calls: the near-Earth asteroids -- Far frontiers: from the Trojans to the Kuiper Belt -- Asteroid space missions -- The name's the thing! -- 3043 San Diego: the unwanted honor -- Impact -- Shoemaker-Levy 9 -- Planetary defense -- The third century of asteroid studies.".
- catalog title "Asteroids : a history / Curtis Peebles.".
- catalog type "text".