Impact!
Subtitle: The Threat of Comets and Asteroids
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 20, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780195119190
First sentence: AT the beginning of the nineteenth century, French paleontologist Baron Georges Cuvier recognized that many fossils represented the remains of species that no longer roamed the earth but were only to be found in certain rock strata.