Cosmic pinball
Subtitle: the science of comets, meteors, and asteroids
By: [edited] by Carolyn Sumners and Carlton Allen.
Contributors: Sumners, Carolyn.; Allen, Carlton.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; McGraw Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Comets; Meteors; Asteroids
Description: "Cosmic Pinball presents the latest scientific research on the rogue rocks: comets, meteors, meteorites, and asteroids."--BOOK JACKET. "From the minute grains of dust that every day sift down through our atmosphere, to the city-sized asteroids that sometimes swing perilously close to our vulnerable planet, Cosmic Pinball digs deep into the mysteries of the flotsam and jetsam left over from our solar system's violent birth."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.