Disturbing the Solar System
Subtitle: Impacts, Close Encounters, and Coming Attractions
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780691074740
Subjects: Popular astronomy; Solar System; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Extraterrestrial Geology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life on other planets; Astronomy - Solar System; Astronomy and Cosmology; Biological Sciences; Physics; Science / Astronomy; Cosmology; Earth Sciences - Geology; Catastrophes (Geology); Gravity
First sentence: THE PREHISTORY of the solar system is an astronomical saga of star birth and death, of matter collapsing into gravitationally bound clouds of gas and dust and elements being spewed into interstellar space.