Disturbing the Solar System
Subtitle: Impacts, Close Encounters, and Coming Attractions
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 24, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780691117430
Subjects: Popular astronomy; Solar system; Science; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - Solar System; Astronomy and Cosmology; Biological Sciences; Physics; Science / Astronomy; History; Astronomy - General
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.