Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 802
ISBN-13: 9780521853491
Subjects: Comets; Meteors; Science/Mathematics; Science; Astronomy - Solar System; Science / Astronomy; Astronomy - General
First sentence: When we wish upon a falling star, we appeal to an ancient belief that the stars represent our souls and a meteor is one falling into the hereafter.